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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Holy Theatre, part 2 (p 61-72).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which production does the author refer to in Paris which was a flop, so they offered three free performances?
(a) Sergeant Musgrave's Dance.
(b) Les Miserables.
(c) La Boheme.
(d) Caucasian Chalk Circle.

2. The theory of what is: "a spectator can be jolted eventually into new sight, so that he wakes to the life around him"?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Happenings.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Cruelty.

3. What does the author contend is "the only trouble with violent shocks"?
(a) That they are empty.
(b) That they wear off.
(c) That they are false.
(d) That they arrest thought.

4. "When we accept Beckett's statement as it is, then suddenly all is _______."
(a) Transformed.
(b) Devastated.
(c) True.
(d) Desolate.

5. "In Grotowski's terminology, the actor allows a role to '_____' him."
(a) Embody.
(b) Swallow.
(c) Penetrate.
(d) Engulf.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?

4. The author points out that the best dramatists explain themselves how (regarding stage direction)?

5. Who does the author say is the most influential of modern writers?

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