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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. "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."
(a) Incomprehensible.
(b) Super-human.
(c) Tangible.
(d) Easy.

2. What used to be the great symbol of a whole school of theatre?
(a) The stage.
(b) The footlights.
(c) The Curtain.
(d) The orchestra.

3. 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?
(a) Death of a Salesman.
(b) Les Miserables.
(c) House of Flowers.
(d) La Boheme.

4. What play was conceived by Peter Weiss, and based on many ideals of Brecht?
(a) Ubu Roi.
(b) Marat/Sade.
(c) The Screens.
(d) The Investigation.

5. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) The Investigation.
(d) Marat/Sade.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Brook, "Beckett's dark plays are plays of ______, where the desperate object created is witness of the ferocity of the wish to bear witness to the truth."

2. In America, the author writes, "Years ago, ______ came into being to give a faith and continuity to those unhappy artists who were being so rapidly thrown in and out of work."

3. Of which actor does the author say, "His tongue, his vocal chords, his feeling for rhythm compose an instrument that he has consciously developed all through his career in a running analogy with his life"?

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

5. What is the climax of the theatre, which is not the climax of applause?

(see the answer key)

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