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

2. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?
(a) Meisner.
(b) Meyerhold.
(c) Adler.
(d) Chekhov.

3. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?
(a) Love.
(b) Worship.
(c) Nobility.
(d) Ritual.

4. The theatre is "the last forum" where what is still an open question?
(a) Idealism.
(b) Beauty.
(c) War.
(d) Love.

5. "The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."
(a) Tangible.
(b) Easy.
(c) Super-human.
(d) Incomprehensible.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author claims that a "true symbol" is what?

2. Who from the Martha Graham company has evolved a ballet company whose daily exercises are a continual preparation for the shock of freedom?

3. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."

4. What used to be the great symbol of a whole school of theatre?

5. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How do Deadly Theatre and Shakespeare intersect?

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

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

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

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

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