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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Immediate Theatre, part 1 (p 110 to 134).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Henry V.

2. Which playwright does the author hold in the greatest esteem as one who combines the Rough Theatre with the Holy Theatre?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Brecht.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Albee.

3. Where did the author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?
(a) The Hamburg Opera.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The London Globe.
(d) The Royal Shakespeare Company.

4. Which chapter is the most autobiographical to the author?
(a) "The Deadly Theatre."
(b) "The Rough Theatre."
(c) "The Immediate Theatre."
(d) "The Instinctive Theatre."

5. In France, there are how many deadly ways of playing classical tragedy, according to the author?
(a) Four.
(b) Ten.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes, "What has not been appreciated sufficiently is that the freedom of movement of the ____ theatre was not only a matter of scenery."

2. Who allegedly saw a play for the first time in their lives and were confronted with Waiting for Godot with no problem at all in following what, to regular theatre-goers, was incomprehensible?

3. What does the author contend is "the only trouble with violent shocks"?

4. 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"?

5. Whose speech in Shakespeare holds the line, "Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter," despite the fact that the character who speaks it is considered "wicked"?

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