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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. Who from the Martha Graham company has evolved a ballet company whose daily exercises are a continual preparation for the shock of freedom?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Catherine Fitzmaurice.
(c) Merce Cunningham.
(d) Winter Stephenson.

2. What form of theatre does the author discuss first in the book?
(a) Deadly Theatre.
(b) Immediate Theatre.
(c) Bad Theatre.
(d) Holy Theatre.

3. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."
(a) Creativity.
(b) Authorship.
(c) Actors.
(d) Magnitude.

4. "When we accept Beckett's statement as it is, then suddenly all is _______."
(a) True.
(b) Transformed.
(c) Desolate.
(d) Devastated.

5. What artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?
(a) Travis Kendowski.
(b) Andreas Bryg.
(c) Jerzy Grotowski.
(d) Chaim Potok.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose speech in Shakespeare holds the line, "Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter," despite the fact that the character who speaks it is considered "wicked"?

2. According to Brook, "Beckett's dark plays are plays of ______, where the desperate object created is witness of the ferocity of the wish to bear witness to the truth."

3. In regard to music, the author says we may make a personality cult of whom?

4. The theory of what is: "a spectator can be jolted eventually into new sight, so that he wakes to the life around him"?

5. "In Grotowski's terminology, the actor allows a role to '_____' him."

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "The Happening," and what difficulty does it pose?

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

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

4. How does the author define "The Holy Theatre"?

5. Describe Brook's "Theatre of Cruelty." Whose concepts and theories was this based upon?

6. How do Deadly Theatre and Shakespeare intersect?

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

8. What is "The Living Theatre"?

9. How does the author describe the Hamburg Opera and the audience who attended it?

10. What is the theory and concept behind "Theatre of Cruelty?"

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