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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of respiration is the most effective for the actor?
(a) Total respiration.
(b) Lower respiration.
(c) Deep respiration.
(d) Upper respiration.

2. Grotowski demands _____ in his classroom.
(a) Enthusiasm.
(b) Silence.
(c) Consideration.
(d) Stimulation.

3. "American Encounter" was an interview during the time Grotowski was leading a workshop at _____.
(a) Yale School of Drama.
(b) New York University.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) Mason Gross School of the Arts.

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

5. Grotowski says in "American Encounter" that the third thing one could consider "ethical" is the problem of _____.
(a) Emotion.
(b) Process and result.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Prejudice.

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

7. In one exercise from "Actor's Training (1959 - 1962)", the actor is to jump onto a chair. Where does the jump come from in the body?
(a) Legs.
(b) Trunk.
(c) Head.
(d) Chest.

8. Grotowski points out in all of his lessons in "Actor's Training (1966)" that _____ must be excluded in the exercises.
(a) Thought.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Connection.
(d) Gravity.

9. Who recorded the exercises from "Actor's Training (1959 - 1962)"?
(a) Stanislaw Scierski.
(b) Denis Beron.
(c) Eugenio Barba.
(d) Ryszard Cielsak.

10. Who does Grotowski say devised many good exercises, some with masks in "The Actor's Technique"?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Dullin.
(c) Stanislavski.
(d) Artaud.

11. What does Grotowski approach second in "Actor's Training (1966)"?
(a) Tiger.
(b) Stimulation of the Voice.
(c) Floor work.
(d) Animal exercises.

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

13. Grotowski states in "The Actor's Technique" that the greatest difference between his technique and other methods is that his is _____.
(a) Possessive.
(b) Positive.
(c) Negative.
(d) Transitive.

14. The fact that "in order to get the result you must not look for it" is a _____.
(a) Paradox.
(b) Justification.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Falsehood.

15. The problem that Grotowski encountered with Yoga for achieving concentration in the actor was that the concentration was _____.
(a) Impulsive.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Internal.
(d) External.

Short Answer Questions

1. Part VI of "Actor's Training (1959 - 1962)" are exercises involving _____.

2. Who is Grotowski's collaborator and observer in "Actor's Training (1966)"?

3. Grotowski states in "The Actor's Technique" that it is a fact that children, animals, and people who are close to nature breathe _____.

4. Part V of "Actor's Training (1959 - 1962)" are "Leaps and _____."

5. What part of the body does Grotowski call the "center of expression" in "Actor's Training (1966)"?

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