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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which company is mentioned by the author as using time well, rehearsing approximately 12 months for performances?
(a) The Berliner Ensemble.
(b) The National Theatre.
(c) Comedie Francaise.
(d) The Pekin Opera.

3. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?
(a) The creative impulse doesn't exist.
(b) The price is too high.
(c) The lack of culture.
(d) The work is too shabby.

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) Artaud.
(c) Pinter.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

6. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?
(a) Marat/Sade.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) The Investigation.

7. What artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?
(a) Chaim Potok.
(b) Andreas Bryg.
(c) Travis Kendowski.
(d) Jerzy Grotowski.

8. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?
(a) Gets raves.
(b) Makes less money.
(c) Makes more money.
(d) Bombs.

9. 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.

10. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?
(a) Williams.
(b) Pinter.
(c) Shepard.
(d) Sletteland.

11. Brook claims there are two ways of "speaking about the human condition: there is the process of inspiration" and the process of what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Desire.
(c) Truth.
(d) Honest vision.

12. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?
(a) Seven.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Ten.

13. According to Brook, "We can try to capture the invisible but we must not lose touch" with what?
(a) The audience.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Reality.
(d) Money.

14. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?
(a) Man.
(b) Machine.
(c) Monster.
(d) Forest.

15. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?
(a) Being idiots.
(b) Lying to the authors.
(c) Cheating the critics.
(d) Cheating themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?

2. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."

3. The author writes, "Of course nowhere does the Deadly Theatre install itself so securely, so comfortably and so slyly as in the works of" whom?

4. 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?

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

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