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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. "The actor's work is never for _______, yet always is for one."
(a) A critic.
(b) A director.
(c) Another actor.
(d) An audience.

2. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Grotowski.
(c) Artaud.
(d) Jenet.

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

4. "By using language illogically, by introducing the ridiculous in speech and the fantastic in behaviour, an author of the __________ opens up for himself another vocabulary."
(a) Theatre of the Absurd.
(b) Theatre of Realism.
(c) Avant garde Theatre.
(d) Surrealist Theatre.

5. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?
(a) Xing Opera Company.
(b) Siam Opera Company.
(c) Formosa Opera Company.
(d) Pekin Opera Company.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?

2. The theatre has often been called what?

3. In France, there are how many deadly ways of playing classical tragedy, according to the author?

4. There is often a call for performing the classics in what way?

5. A word is an end product which begins with what?

(see the answer key)

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