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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For which Shakespearean play is it true that "as long as scholars could not decide whether this play was a comedy or not, it never got played"?
(a) Measure for Measure.
(b) King Lear.
(c) The Tempest.
(d) Henry VIII.

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

3. In performance, what is the relationship the author establishes?
(a) Actor/director/audience.
(b) Actor/subject/audience.
(c) Director/actor/audience.
(d) Audience/director/actor.

4. "In work with a designer, a sympathy of _____ is what matters most."
(a) Tempo.
(b) Expertise.
(c) Money.
(d) Means.

5. Of what does the author describe, "the moment when the illogical breaks through our everyday understanding to make us open our eyes more widely"?
(a) A realization.
(b) A Happening effect.
(c) An alienation effect.
(d) A fortitude.

6. What is the term which embodies the emotional and spiritual experience that occurs in great tragedies?
(a) Tears.
(b) Relief.
(c) Catharsis.
(d) Exhaustion.

7. The closer the actor approaches what, the more requirements he is asked to separate, understand and fulfill simultaneously?
(a) Rehearsing.
(b) Experimenting.
(c) Performing.
(d) Reading.

8. From which of Shakespeare's plays is the line, "Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day", which the author uses as an example in "The Immediate Theatre"?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) A Winter's Tale.
(d) King Lear.

9. What words does the author refer to as lines from Madame Butterfly?
(a) "Have a whiskey."
(b) "Take me home."
(c) "Gone fishing."
(d) "Give me peace."

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

11. What director/playwright was rooted in the cabaret?
(a) Meyerhold.
(b) Bertolt Brecht.
(c) Peter Brook.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

12. In the third section of the book the author claims, "It is always the ______ theatre that saves the day."
(a) Honest.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Proud.
(d) Popular.

13. The author contends that ______ "is a model of a theatre that contains Brecht and Beckett, but goes beyond both."
(a) Marlowe.
(b) Williams.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Albee.

14. What is the third element for creating and defining theatre, according to the author, described as the life that an audience brings into the theatre every time a play is performed?
(a) Assistance.
(b) Truth.
(c) Representation.
(d) Repetition.

15. From what play does the author quote the line, "It was in the year of 18-- that a young student, Roman Rodianovitchi Raskolnikov..."?
(a) Crime and Punishment.
(b) Anna Karena.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) The Brothers Karamazov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "is above all an appeal to the spectator to work for himself, so to become more and more responsible for accepting what he sees only if it is convincing to him in an adult way"?

2. Of the two British actors the author compares in "The Immediate Theatre," which is intuition-based?

3. What is Artaud's three-minute play, which the author produced first at his "Theatre of Cruelty"?

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

5. 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."

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