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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dr Faustus: Textual Montage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grotowski define as "not a collection of skills but an eradication of blocks?"
(a) Der negate.
(b) Via negativa.
(c) The Method.
(d) Resistance training.

2. Grotowski claims in "Towards a Poor Theatre" (Chapter 1) that there is not a contradiction between inner technique and _____.
(a) Breathing.
(b) Artifice.
(c) Physics.
(d) Psychic ability.

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

4. What does the phrase, "Primum non nocere" mean?
(a) Black as night.
(b) First, do not harm.
(c) Harm is epidemic.
(d) Always at night.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Akropolis: Treatment of the Text" was written by the literary adviser to The Laboratory, named _____.

2. Where was "Dr Faustus: Textual Montage" first published as an article?

3. Whom does the Angel struggle with in "Akropolis"?

4. Whom does Grotowski quote in "Towards a Poor Theatre" (Chapter 1) as saying, "Each technique leads to metaphysics"?

5. What does Grotowski say "are always based on the transcendence of rules" in "Theatre is an Encounter"?

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