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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Immediate Theatre, part 1 (p 110 to 134).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?
(a) Falseness.
(b) Style.
(c) Baseness.
(d) Manner.

2. What "can be anywhere, any time, of any duration: nothing is required, nothing is taboo"?
(a) A violent outbreak.
(b) An emotional moment.
(c) A Happening.
(d) An ordeal.

3. The author points out that the best dramatists explain themselves how (regarding stage direction)?
(a) Intricately.
(b) The least.
(c) Creatively.
(d) The most.

4. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?
(a) Feeling.
(b) Applause.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Label.

5. The sort of play that Shakespeare offers us is never just what?
(a) An enlightened tale.
(b) A Rough play.
(c) A Holy play.
(d) A series of events.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of whom does the author say, "His aim continually is holy, metaphysical, yet he never makes the mistake of staying too long on the highest plane"?

3. Every work and every period has its own what?

4. In which Shakespearean play is a main character named Cornelia?

5. What "is above all an appeal to the spectator to work for himself, so to become more and more responsible for accepting what he sees only if it is convincing to him in an adult way"?

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