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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?
(a) Space.
(b) Economic.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Socialist.

2. What is the theatre district in London called?
(a) West End.
(b) SoHo.
(c) East End.
(d) Broadway.

3. What does the author contend is "the only trouble with violent shocks"?
(a) That they arrest thought.
(b) That they are empty.
(c) That they are false.
(d) That they wear off.

4. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?
(a) New York.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) California.

5. The author points out that the best dramatists explain themselves how (regarding stage direction)?
(a) The least.
(b) Creatively.
(c) The most.
(d) Intricately.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes, "In Haitian voodoo, all you need to begin a ceremony is a ____ and people."

2. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?

3. The theatre has often been called what?

4. "By using language illogically, by introducing the ridiculous in speech and the fantastic in behaviour, an author of the __________ opens up for himself another vocabulary."

5. Where did the author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the difference between the Pekin Opera Company and the Formosa Opera Company.

2. How does the author compare the "deadly theatre" to the "deadly bore?"

3. What does the author say of Artaud's contribution to "The Holy Theatre"?

4. What role does the critic play in the world of theatre?

5. What similarity ties the three artists whom the author discusses in "The Holy Theatre"?

6. What playwright does the author write of whose work transcends the absurd?

7. Describe the qualities which contribute to Deadly Theatre.

8. What is "The Living Theatre"?

9. What does the author say about New York theatre and its economic focus?

10. What is a "deadly" actor, and what contributes to this?

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