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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who theorized the "Theatre of Cruelty"?
(a) Antoine Artaud.
(b) Bertolt Brecht.
(c) Jerzy Grotowski.
(d) Merce Cunningham.

3. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?
(a) Space.
(b) Economic.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Socialist.

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

5. What does the author say is nonexistent in today's world?
(a) A Deadly Theatre.
(b) A true theatre of joy.
(c) A competition with film.
(d) A fight for truth.

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

7. What is the climax of the theatre, which is not the climax of applause?
(a) The climax of intent.
(b) The climax of silence.
(c) The climax of relief.
(d) The climax of fear.

8. "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) Magnitude.
(b) Theatre.
(c) Drama.
(d) Art.

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

10. "The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."
(a) Easy.
(b) Tangible.
(c) Super-human.
(d) Incomprehensible.

11. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?
(a) Imperial gestures.
(b) Beliefs in ideals.
(c) Creative impulses.
(d) Understanding of truths.

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) Four.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Ten.

13. Approximately how long is a rehearsal process in New York, according to the author?
(a) One week.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Two months.
(d) Three weeks.

14. What is the name of Peter Weiss' play about Auschwitz, which the author uses in example?
(a) Final Hour.
(b) The Investigation.
(c) The Diary of Anne Frank.
(d) Auschwitz.

15. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?
(a) Baseness.
(b) Style.
(c) Manner.
(d) Falseness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?

2. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?

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

5. What form of theatre does the author discuss first in the book?

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