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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. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?
(a) Cheating the critics.
(b) Lying to the authors.
(c) Cheating themselves.
(d) Being idiots.

2. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?
(a) Label.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Applause.

3. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."
(a) Desperation.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Love.
(d) Religion.

4. According to Brook, "We can try to capture the invisible but we must not lose touch" with what?
(a) Money.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Reality.
(d) The audience.

5. In regard to music, the author says we may make a personality cult of whom?
(a) The musician.
(b) The conductor.
(c) The soloist.
(d) The song writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The theatre has often been called what?

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

3. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?

4. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?

5. "In the theatre, the tendency for centuries has been to put the actor" where?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the third theatre practitioner the author discusses regarding examples of Holy Theatre, and why?

2. What American dancer does the author discuss, and what does his work entail?

3. Describe the qualities which contribute to Deadly Theatre.

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

5. What metaphor does the author use for the theatre in the first section of the book, and what is his meaning?

6. What does the author say in discussing the removal of the symbolic curtain in the theatre?

7. Discuss the playwright's role, as established by the author.

8. How does boringness contribute to people attending Deadly Theatre?

9. What has happened to "ritual" in today's culture, as described by the author?

10. How does "change" relate to the theatre and its success?

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