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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Holy Theatre, part 1 (p 47 to 61).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which company is mentioned by the author as using time well, rehearsing approximately 12 months for performances?
(a) The National Theatre.
(b) Comedie Francaise.
(c) The Berliner Ensemble.
(d) The Pekin Opera.

2. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?
(a) The price is too high.
(b) The lack of culture.
(c) The work is too shabby.
(d) The creative impulse doesn't exist.

3. The author contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?
(a) Discoveries.
(b) Superficiality.
(c) Journeys.
(d) Rituals.

4. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?
(a) Shepard.
(b) Pinter.
(c) Sletteland.
(d) Williams.

5. What does the author say is nonexistent in today's world?
(a) A true theatre of joy.
(b) A fight for truth.
(c) A competition with film.
(d) A Deadly Theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. There is often a call for performing the classics in what way?

2. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?

3. A word is an end product which begins with what?

4. On the first day of rehearsal of what show did its composer, Harold Arlen, arrive wearing a blue cornflower, with champagne and presents for all?

5. What era was a thriving point for Jouvet and Bérard, Jean-Louis Barrault, Clave at the ballet, Don Juan, Amphitryon, La Folk de Chaillot, Carmen, and others?

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