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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Deadly Theatre, part 2 (p. 30-46).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 creative impulse doesn't exist.
(b) The lack of culture.
(c) The price is too high.
(d) The work is too shabby.

2. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."
(a) The Classical Actor.
(b) The Chekhovian Actor.
(c) The Meisner Actor.
(d) The Method Actor.

3. Where did the author see a production in which a young actor "stood in front of a very old one and spoke and mimed the role with him like a reflection in a glass"?
(a) Broadway.
(b) The West End.
(c) Comedie Francaise.
(d) Theatre de Francaise.

4. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?
(a) Truman Capote.
(b) James Jackson.
(c) Harold Clurman.
(d) Peter Brook.

5. What is the name of Peter Weiss' play about Auschwitz, which the author uses in example?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) The Diary of Anne Frank.
(c) Final Hour.
(d) The Investigation.

Short Answer 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."

2. "When the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear toured through Europe, the production was steadily improving and the best performances lay between" where?

3. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?

4. "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."

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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