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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Theories.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Methods.

2. What is the first exercise in "Warming Up" from "Actor's Training (1959 - 1962)"?
(a) Rhythmical walking while arms and hands rotate.
(b) Walk with knees bent, gripping the ankles.
(c) Running on tiptoe.
(d) Walk with knees bent, hands on hips.

3. 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 _____."
(a) God.
(b) Thought processes.
(c) Psychic processes.
(d) His emotions.

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

5. Who built his methods on the spontaneity of daily life, according to Grotowski in "The Actor's Technique"?
(a) Brecht.
(b) Artaud.
(c) Stanislavski.
(d) Meyerhold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Grotowski says in "The Actor's Technique" that one cannot be completely _____ as taught in most theatre schools.

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

3. In "He Wasn't Entirely Himself", Grotowski writes that _____ was compromised by his disciples.

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

5. The fact that "in order to get the result you must not look for it" is a _____.

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