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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. Who "spent his life railing against the theatre of illusion, but his most treasured memories were of painted trees and forests and his eyes would light up as he described effects of trompe d'Å“il"?
(a) Stanislavsky.
(b) Gordon Craig.
(c) Meyerhold.
(d) Schindler.

2. Where did the author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) The Royal Shakespeare Company.
(c) The Hamburg Opera.
(d) The London Globe.

3. The theatre is "the last forum" where what is still an open question?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Love.
(c) Idealism.
(d) War.

4. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?
(a) Understanding of truths.
(b) Creative impulses.
(c) Beliefs in ideals.
(d) Imperial gestures.

5. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."
(a) Art.
(b) Drama.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Magnitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?

2. The author points out that the best dramatists explain themselves how (regarding stage direction)?

3. The author contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?

4. What does the author refer to Meyerhold's experiments as?

5. "The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."

(see the answer key)

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