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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Skara Speech.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Actor's Training (1966)" it is stated that "if something is symmetrical it is not _____."
(a) Artistic.
(b) Correct.
(c) Organic.
(d) Beautiful.

2. 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) Theories.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Activities.
(d) Methods.

3. Grotowski states in "The Actor's Technique" that it is a fact that children, animals, and people who are close to nature breathe _____.
(a) Shallowly.
(b) With tension.
(c) Abdominally.
(d) With relaxation.

4. In "Dr. Faustus", the spectators are _____.
(a) The animals.
(b) The prisoners.
(c) The actors.
(d) The guests.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Grotowski talks of catharsis in comparing how the audience feels for Creon versus _____.

2. The description of Grotowski's production of "The Constant Prince" compares it to what Rembrandt painting?

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

4. Grotowski states of Artaud in "The Actor's Technique" that to Artaud "there is an authentic parallelism between the effort of man who works with his body and _____."

5. What does the phrase, "Primum non nocere" mean?

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