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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. 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 Laboratory.
(d) The Living Theatre.

2. Where did the author see a production in which a young actor "stood in front of a very old one and spoke and mimed the role with him like a reflection in a glass"?
(a) Broadway.
(b) Theatre de Francaise.
(c) Comedie Francaise.
(d) The West End.

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) Winter Stephenson.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Catherine Fitzmaurice.
(d) Merce Cunningham.

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

5. "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."
(a) Avant garde Theatre.
(b) Theatre of the Absurd.
(c) Theatre of Realism.
(d) Surrealist Theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What era was a thriving point for Jouvet and Bérard, Jean-Louis Barrault, Clave at the ballet, Don Juan, Amphitryon, La Folk de Chaillot, Carmen, and others?

3. What group is led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?

4. What does the author refer to Meyerhold's experiments as?

5. What does the author contend is "the only trouble with violent shocks"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How can one produce Shakespeare and not fall into the realm of "Deadly" theatre?

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