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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Actor's Training (1966).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the exercise from "Actor's Training (1966)" which intends to make the pupil let himself go completely, and at the same time, set the guttural resonator in action?
(a) "Lion" exercise.
(b) "Mouse" exercise.
(c) "Tiger" exercise.
(d) "Cat" exercise.

2. What was the theory of the theatre, which was created by Artaud?
(a) Method Acting.
(b) Alienation effect.
(c) Theatre of cruelty.
(d) Performance art.

3. What do the people surrounding the Prince wear in "The Constant Prince"?
(a) Robes.
(b) Gowns.
(c) Military uniforms.
(d) Togas.

4. Who does Grotowski say theorized that the theatre should be a synthesis of all the arts?
(a) Brecht.
(b) Wagner.
(c) Kranikav.
(d) Stanislavski.

5. The technique of the "courtesan actor" is _____.
(a) Transductive.
(b) Holy.
(c) Deductive.
(d) Inductive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Grotowski talks of catharsis in comparing how the audience feels for Creon versus _____.

2. Grotowski points out in all of his lessons in "Actor's Training (1966)" that _____ must be excluded in the exercises.

3. Grotowski states in "Theatre is an Encounter" that Meyerhold's production of "The Inspector General" was a sort of collage of the texts of _____.

4. What act and scene in the original script of "Dr. Faustus" does Grotowski's version begin with?

5. It is said in "Dr Faustus: Textual Montage" that if one wants sainthood, one must _____.

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