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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Statement of Principles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "he who once dreamed of becoming a playwright" usually end up as, according to Grotowski?
(a) A ticket-taker.
(b) An actor.
(c) A director.
(d) A producer.

2. How long was the course that Grotowski taught in America for "American Encounter"?
(a) 4 weeks.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 10 days.

3. What is the name of Grotowski's school?
(a) The Actor's Studio.
(b) The Laboratory.
(c) The Box.
(d) Theatre of Cruelty.

4. In "He Wasn't Entirely Himself", Grotowski writes that _____ was compromised by his disciples.
(a) Stanislavski.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Plato.
(d) Chekhov.

5. To the average theatregoer, the theatre is first and foremost a what, according to Grotowski?
(a) Art.
(b) Improvement.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Entertainment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before performances, Grotowski's actors have a period of silence for _____.

2. Grotowski's "holy actor" does not sell his body but _____ .

3. What is the name of the exercise from "Actor's Training (1966)" which intends to make the pupil let himself go completely, and at the same time, set the guttural resonator in action?

4. What is the term for Brecht's "alienation effect"?

5. The cycle of exercises in "Stimulation of the Voice" from "Actor's Training (1966)," begins with _____.

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