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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 author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?
(a) Standing on a cliff.
(b) Screaming loudly.
(c) Weeping uncontrollably.
(d) Pretending to be a tree.

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

3. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?
(a) Two years.
(b) Six years.
(c) One year.
(d) Five months.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?

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

3. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?

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

5. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?

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