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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what Shakespearean play is Gloucester blinded?
(a) Henry VI.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Henry IV.
(d) King Lear.

2. 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"?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Romance.
(c) Realism.
(d) Absurdism.

3. In the author's "formula" for creating and defining theatre, the first element is what?
(a) Representation.
(b) Assistance.
(c) Truth.
(d) Repetition.

4. 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) Representation.
(b) Assistance.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Truth.

5. The author believes the science of theatre building demands studying what it is, which brings about the most what?
(a) Separation of the spectators.
(b) Connectedness with the stage and audience.
(c) Vivid relationship between people.
(d) Holiness.

6. Who wrote The Three Sisters?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Marlowe.
(d) Brecht.

7. "If rehearsals are short, ______ is inevitable--but everyone deplores it, naturally," according to the author.
(a) Casting.
(b) Type-casting.
(c) No direction.
(d) Foregoing truth.

8. 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."
(a) Elizabethan.
(b) Pagan.
(c) Brechtian.
(d) French.

9. Which actor "is reaching inside himself for an alphabet that is also fossilized, for the language of signs from life that he knows is the language not of invention but of his conditioning"?
(a) The Immediate Actor.
(b) The Classical Actor.
(c) The Grotowski Actor.
(d) The Method Actor.

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

11. What is Artaud's three-minute play, which the author produced first at his "Theatre of Cruelty"?
(a) Endgame.
(b) The Last Stand.
(c) Spurt of Blood.
(d) Agony in Waiting.

12. Which country produced a television version of Ubu Roi which captivated the audience with its surrealism?
(a) Czechoslavakia.
(b) Britain.
(c) France.
(d) Israel.

13. What are some of the physical aspects of the alienation effect?
(a) Realistic furniture.
(b) Placards and visible spotlights.
(c) Sun lighting.
(d) All of the above.

14. The author writes of his book, "if anyone were to try to use it as a handbook, then I can definitely warn him--there are no _______."
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Formulas.
(c) Questions.
(d) Answers.

15. "Figaro or Falstaff or Tartuffe lampoon and debunk through laughter, and the author's purpose is to bring about a _______."
(a) Radical anarchy.
(b) Vision of truth.
(c) Social change.
(d) Tear to the eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. "In work with a designer, a sympathy of _____ is what matters most."

2. Which chapter is the most autobiographical to the author?

3. Of whom does the author say, "can write the most eloquent language, but the amazing impressions in his plays are very often brought about by the visual inventions with which he juxtaposes serious, beautiful, grotesque and ridiculous elements"?

4. "Whenever one has a real critical flop, for the remainder of the run there is always a small audience of..." what?

5. 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"?

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