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

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

3. What is the name of the Devil in "Dr. Faustus"?
(a) Satan.
(b) Mephistopheles.
(c) Zephyr.
(d) Beelzebub.

4. In "Technique of the Voice" in "Actor's Training (1959 - 1962)", Grotowski begins with _____.
(a) Dialect.
(b) Carrying power.
(c) Articulation.
(d) Respiration.

5. Grotowski in "The Actor's Technique" says that in understanding how he differs from Stanislavski, Brecht, and Artaud that it is important to distinguish between aesthetics and _____.
(a) Activities.
(b) Methods.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Theories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the body does Grotowski call the "center of expression" in "Actor's Training (1966)"?

2. When did the interview for "Theatre is an Encounter" take place?

3. How long in the play "Dr. Faustus" does Faustus have to live before his martyrdom of hell?

4. Who recorded the exercises from "Actor's Training (1959 - 1962)"?

5. In "Dr Faustus: Textual Montage", it is written that the play is a dialectic between mockery and _____.

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