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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. 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"?
(a) Desdemona.
(b) Goneril.
(c) Juliet.
(d) Emilia.

2. Of what does the author write, "three needs become one: it exists for the sake of performing, it earns its living through performing and its performances contain the most intense and intimate moments of its collective life"?
(a) The Theatre of Cruelty.
(b) The Motion Picture Industry.
(c) The Living Theatre.
(d) The Laboratory.

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

4. Who theorized the "Theatre of Cruelty"?
(a) Antoine Artaud.
(b) Jerzy Grotowski.
(c) Merce Cunningham.
(d) Bertolt Brecht.

5. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?
(a) Happy Days.
(b) Endgame.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) Krapp's Last Tape.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?

2. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?

3. The author writes, "Of course nowhere does the Deadly Theatre install itself so securely, so comfortably and so slyly as in the works of" whom?

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. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the director's principle responsibilities in the process of creating/producing theatre?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe the qualities which contribute to Deadly Theatre.

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