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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Immediate Theatre, part 2 (p 134 to 157).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the author describe as perhaps the most idiosyncratic of all theatre artists?
(a) Directors.
(b) Critics.
(c) Actors.
(d) Designers.

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

3. What era was a thriving point for Jouvet and Bérard, Jean-Louis Barrault, Clave at the ballet, Don Juan, Amphitryon, La Folk de Chaillot, Carmen, and others?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1940s.
(d) The 1800s.

4. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."
(a) Truth.
(b) Realism.
(c) Unreal.
(d) Glory.

5. The theatre has often been called what?
(a) A waste.
(b) A misery.
(c) A religion.
(d) A whore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "lie" that the secret patronage of going to the theatre is?

2. Who once did a production of Love's Labour's Lost where the character called Constable Dull was dressed as a Victorian policeman because his name at once conjured up the typical figure of the London bobby?

3. "Just as in life the wearing of old clothes can start as defiance and turn into a posture, so ______ can become an end in itself."

4. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?

5. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?

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