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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first statement of "Statement of Principles" deals principally with the discarding of _____.
(a) Emotions.
(b) Hang-ups.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Masks.

2. What is the term for Brecht's "alienation effect"?
(a) Verisimilitude.
(b) Athenheimstsard.
(c) Mankwovwsvyt.
(d) Verfremdungseffekt.

3. In "Dr Faustus: Textual Montage", it is written that the play is a dialectic between mockery and _____.
(a) Satire.
(b) Morality.
(c) Evil
(d) Apotheosis.

4. Grotowski talks of catharsis in comparing how the audience feels for Creon versus _____.
(a) Antigone.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Athena.
(d) Pandora.

5. Part VI of "Statement of Principles" states that we must never exploit privately anything connected with _____.
(a) The faithful truth.
(b) The logical act.
(c) The emotional act.
(d) The creative act.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Grotowski say asked the key methodological questions of acting in "Towards a Poor Theatre" (Chapter 1)?

2. Where does the action of "Akropolis" take place in the text?

3. Who does Grotowski say devised many good exercises, some with masks in "The Actor's Technique"?

4. What does Grotowski define as "the ability to concentrate in a particular theatrical way and can be attained with a minimum of good-will"?

5. What does Grotowski compare his work with actors to, as opposed to that of the artist or the scientist in "The Theatre's New Testament"?

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