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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. The cycle of exercises in "Stimulation of the Voice" from "Actor's Training (1966)," ends with _____.
(a) The chest voice.
(b) The belly voice.
(c) The back voice.
(d) The head voice.

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) Emotional.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Physical.

3. In Scene 17 of Grotowski's "Dr. Faustus", Faustus is transported to the Vatican by what?
(a) Two dragons.
(b) A rowboat.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A ship.

4. What does Grotowski say that he and his actors are trying to avoid in "Towards a Poor Theatre" (Chapter 1)?
(a) Eclecticism.
(b) Avant-garde.
(c) Progress.
(d) Tradition.

5. Who wrote the original script of "Dr. Faustus"?
(a) Marlowe.
(b) Molière.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Grotowski.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grotowski define as "not a collection of skills but an eradication of blocks?"

2. When was the interview "The Theatre's New Testament" made?

3. What does "he who once dreamed of becoming a playwright" usually end up as, according to Grotowski?

4. The word "actress" and _____ were once synonymous.

5. Grotowski says in "The Actor's Technique" that psychologists readily ask the question, "What is your _____?"

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