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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. Who created the method termed "alienation" in the theatre?
(a) Brook.
(b) Brecht.
(c) Cunningham.
(d) Beckett.

2. Who once did a production of Love's Labour's Lost where the character called Constable Dull was dressed as a Victorian policeman because his name at once conjured up the typical figure of the London bobby?
(a) Antoine Artaud.
(b) Peter Brook.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Peter Sellers.

3. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?
(a) Art museums.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Burlesque.
(d) Television.

4. The author writes, "Of course nowhere does the Deadly Theatre install itself so securely, so comfortably and so slyly as in the works of" whom?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Williams.
(c) Moliere.
(d) Brecht.

5. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?
(a) Being idiots.
(b) Cheating the critics.
(c) Cheating themselves.
(d) Lying to the authors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose theatre, "in which the imagination, freed by anarchy, flies like a wild bat in and out of every possible shape and style," has it all?

2. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?

3. The strongest comedy is rooted in what?

4. The theory of what is: "a spectator can be jolted eventually into new sight, so that he wakes to the life around him"?

5. What is the theatre district in London called?

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