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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 author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?
(a) The Hamburg Opera.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The London Globe.
(d) The Royal Shakespeare Company.

2. What is the Haitian voodoo priest called?
(a) The Krobodos.
(b) The Houngan.
(c) The Magic Man.
(d) The Voodoo.

3. A word is an end product which begins with what?
(a) A thought.
(b) An impulse.
(c) A motion.
(d) An idea.

4. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?
(a) Great theatre.
(b) Bad theatre.
(c) Intense theatre.
(d) Avant garde theatre.

5. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."
(a) Realism.
(b) Unreal.
(c) Truth.
(d) Glory.

Short Answer Questions

1. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."

2. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?

3. 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"?

4. 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."

5. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author tie Haitian voodoo to the art of performance?

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

3. What does the author say about New York theatre and its economic focus?

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

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

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

7. What does the author say in regard to replication and manner in the Deadly Theatre?

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

9. How is "The Happening" similar to the Haitian voodoo ritual?

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

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