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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Part VI of "Actor's Training (1959 - 1962)" are exercises involving _____.
(a) Animals.
(b) Feet.
(c) Breath.
(d) Flight.

2. Most of the physical distortion exercises from "Actor's Training (1966)" seem to be based on _____.
(a) Yoga.
(b) Martial Arts.
(c) Ballet.
(d) Dance.

3. Grotowski tells the students in "Skara Speech" that personal associations are not _____.
(a) Grounded.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Physical.
(d) Thoughts.

4. Who based his work with actors on discipline and exterior formation?
(a) Brecht.
(b) Meyerhold.
(c) Stanislavski.
(d) Artaud.

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) Theories.
(d) Beauty.

6. Before performances, Grotowski's actors have a period of silence for _____.
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 2 hours.

7. The second set of exercises in "Actor's Training (1959 - 1962)" are "Exercises to loosen up the muscles and the _____."
(a) Vertical column.
(b) Creative spirit.
(c) Mind.
(d) Voice.

8. What is the name of the cat Grotowski refers to when discussing associations in "Skara Speech"?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Fluffy.
(c) Java.
(d) Mittens.

9. Grotowski's motto with which he starts his lessons is, "The essence of the theatre is the actor, his actions, and _____."
(a) His emotions.
(b) His thoughts.
(c) His responses.
(d) What he can achieve.

10. What exercise from "Actor's Training (1966)" starts with the pupil walking around and singing while Grotowski lies on the floor next to him?
(a) "King-King" exercise.
(b) "Tiger" exercise.
(c) "La-la" exercise.
(d) "Lion" exercise.

11. What does Grotowski claim that a great Polish actor before the war referred to exhibitionism as?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Egotism.
(c) Publicotropism.
(d) Voyeurism.

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

13. Grotowski states in "Skara Speech" that if you do not fix your imaginary partner in a precise place your reactions will ______.
(a) Wander.
(b) Go to the audience.
(c) Fall dead.
(d) Remain within yourself.

14. Grotowski says in "The Actor's Technique" that psychologists readily ask the question, "What is your _____?"
(a) Education.
(b) Religion.
(c) Thought.
(d) Emotion.

15. Part IV of "Actor's Training (1959 - 1962)" are what kind of exercises?
(a) Upside down.
(b) Flight.
(c) Animal.
(d) Voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Grotowski says in "American Encounter" that the third thing one could consider "ethical" is the problem of _____.

2. Grotowski states in "Skara Speech" for the actors to "eliminate from every exercise any movement which is purely _____."

3. How long was the course that Grotowski taught in America for "American Encounter"?

4. The Skara Drama School is located in _____.

5. 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 _____."

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