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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. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."
(a) Actors.
(b) Magnitude.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Authorship.

2. In Grotowski's theory, "the act of performance is an act of" what?
(a) Outrage.
(b) Love.
(c) Murder.
(d) Sacrifice.

3. "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."
(a) Theatre.
(b) Art.
(c) Magnitude.
(d) Drama.

4. Of whom does the author say, "His aim continually is holy, metaphysical, yet he never makes the mistake of staying too long on the highest plane"?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Pinter.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Artaud.

5. What used to be the great symbol of a whole school of theatre?
(a) The Curtain.
(b) The stage.
(c) The footlights.
(d) The orchestra.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author claims that a "true symbol" is what?

3. What does the author refer to Meyerhold's experiments as?

4. According to Brook, "We can try to capture the invisible but we must not lose touch" with what?

5. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?

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