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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Actor's Technique.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is the task of _____ to amplify the carrying power of sound emitted in the actor.
(a) Vocal chords.
(b) The tongue.
(c) Resonators.
(d) The lungs.

2. What is the setting of Grotowski's "Dr. Faustus"?
(a) A castle.
(b) A monastery.
(c) A prison.
(d) A graveyard.

3. In Scene 19 of "Dr. Faustus", Faustus performs miracles at the palace of whom?
(a) King Richard II.
(b) Emperor Richard V.
(c) King Marcel I.
(d) Emperor Charles V.

4. Whose work on "physical actions" is incorporated into Grotowski's system?
(a) Artaud's.
(b) Stanislavski's.
(c) Brecht's.
(d) Dullin's.

5. Who does Grotowski say devised many good exercises, some with masks in "The Actor's Technique"?
(a) Dullin.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Stanislavski.
(d) Artaud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose investigations of extroversive and introversive reactions are incorporated into Grotowski's system?

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

3. To the average theatregoer, the theatre is first and foremost a what, according to Grotowski?

4. Part IV of "Actor's Training (1959 - 1962)" are what kind of exercises?

5. The actor should take special care to open the _____ when speaking and breathing.

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