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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After a production of Love Labour's Lost, what did the author throw out and never work with again?
(a) Ham actors.
(b) Written plans.
(c) Set designers.
(d) Lighting designers.

2. "Anyone interested in processes in the natural world would be very rewarded by a study of" what?
(a) Playwriting.
(b) Acting.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Theatre conditions.

3. Of what does the author describe, "the moment when the illogical breaks through our everyday understanding to make us open our eyes more widely"?
(a) A realization.
(b) A Happening effect.
(c) An alienation effect.
(d) A fortitude.

4. What is the only "interesting difference" between the theatre and the cinema?
(a) The cinema flashes images from the past.
(b) There is no immediacy in the theatre.
(c) The cinema shows big stars.
(d) There is no violence in theatre.

5. Who "is the key figure of our time, and all theatre work today at some point starts or returns to his statements and achievement," according to Brook?
(a) Brecht.
(b) Pinter.
(c) Osbourne.
(d) Beckett.

6. In the author's "formula" for creating and defining theatre, the first element is what?
(a) Representation.
(b) Truth.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Assistance.

7. The author believes that an architect of the theatre is better off if he works like a what?
(a) Costume designer.
(b) Scene designer.
(c) Community builder.
(d) Visceral artist.

8. In which Shakespearean play does the Holy/Rough theatre show in Falstaff; the prose realism of the inn scenes on the one hand and the poetic levels of so much else--both elements contained within one complex whole?
(a) Henry IV.
(b) Henry VI.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) King Lear.

9. "The epic writer of _____ plays seldom brings to his work this same fine sense of human individuality: perhaps because he is unwilling to regard a man's strength and a man's weakness with equal impartiality."
(a) Dadaist.
(b) Absurdist.
(c) Surrealist.
(d) Marxist.

10. The author says in "The Immediate Theatre", "At least one can see that everything is a _______ for something and nothing is a _______ for everything."
(a) Banality.
(b) Truth.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Language.

11. What words does the author refer to as lines from Madame Butterfly?
(a) "Have a whiskey."
(b) "Give me peace."
(c) "Take me home."
(d) "Gone fishing."

12. What play was conceived by Peter Weiss, and based on many ideals of Brecht?
(a) The Investigation.
(b) Marat/Sade.
(c) Ubu Roi.
(d) The Screens.

13. What is the third element for creating and defining theatre, according to the author, described as the life that an audience brings into the theatre every time a play is performed?
(a) Repetition.
(b) Truth.
(c) Representation.
(d) Assistance.

14. The Rough Theatre deals with men's what?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Souls.
(c) Love.
(d) Actions.

15. Who once did a production of Love's Labour's Lost where the character called Constable Dull was dressed as a Victorian policeman because his name at once conjured up the typical figure of the London bobby?
(a) Antoine Artaud.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Peter Brook.
(d) Peter Sellers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which production of Genet's did the author direct in Paris where it was necessary to mix actors of very different backgrounds?

2. In the cinema, who, according to the author, has single-handedly brought about a revolution by showing how relative the reality of a photographed scene can be?

3. In performance, what is the relationship the author establishes?

4. The author states, "When Brecht was alive, it was the ______ of West Berlin who flocked to his theatre in the East."

5. From what play does the author quote the line, "It was in the year of 18-- that a young student, Roman Rodianovitchi Raskolnikov..."?

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