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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through American Encounter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What form of theatre is based around improvised scenarios, which Grotowski cites in "The Theatre's New Testament"?
(a) Mime.
(b) Performance art.
(c) Commedia dell'Arte.
(d) Greek theatre.

2. Grotowski states in "The Actor's Technique" that when he first begins work with an actor his first question is "Does this actor have any _____ difficulties?"
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Physical.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Breathing.

3. What is at the core of theatre and performance, according to Grotowski in "Theatre is an Encounter"?
(a) The beat.
(b) The text.
(c) The encounter.
(d) The conflict.

4. Grotowski says in "Skara Speech" that he has underlined the fact through the workshop that there are no impulses or reactions without _____.
(a) Thought.
(b) Physicality.
(c) Contact.
(d) Emotion.

5. The Skara Drama School is located in _____.
(a) Paris.
(b) New York.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Dublin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who developed bio-mechanical training for the actor?

2. In "Actor's Training (1959 - 1962)", Grotowski notes that "The exercise serves the _____."

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

4. Who is the author of "Akropolis"?

5. The technique of the "courtesan actor" is _____.

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