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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What French surrealist of the theatre does the author mention in "Rough Theatre"?
(a) Jarry.
(b) Zouicher.
(c) Robeieux.
(d) Cocteaux.

2. What play was conceived by Peter Weiss, and based on many ideals of Brecht?
(a) The Investigation.
(b) Ubu Roi.
(c) The Screens.
(d) Marat/Sade.

3. Of which actor does the author say, "His tongue, his vocal chords, his feeling for rhythm compose an instrument that he has consciously developed all through his career in a running analogy with his life"?
(a) John Gielgud.
(b) Charlie Chaplin.
(c) Paul Scofield.
(d) Peter O'Toole.

4. In what Shakespearean play does the "very subtle construction hinges on the key moment when a statue comes to life"?
(a) Midsummer Night's Dream.
(b) King Lear.
(c) A Winter's Tale.
(d) Hamlet.

5. In which Shakespearean play is a main character named Cornelia?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Faust.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

6. Who "is the key figure of our time, and all theatre work today at some point starts or returns to his statements and achievement," according to Brook?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Pinter.
(c) Osbourne.
(d) Brecht.

7. "Brecht recognized this and in his last years he surprised his associates by saying that the theatre must be ____."
(a) Brazen.
(b) Dishonest.
(c) Naive.
(d) Bold.

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

9. Whose theatre, "in which the imagination, freed by anarchy, flies like a wild bat in and out of every possible shape and style," has it all?
(a) Martha Graham's.
(b) Antoine Artaud's.
(c) Alfred Jarry's.
(d) Spike Milligan's.

10. Who "influenced Europe for half a century through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?
(a) Antoine Artaud.
(b) Martha Graham.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Gordon Craig.

11. The author claims that the price of being a great tragedian or musical conductor is that "the material you use to create these imaginary people who you can pick up and discard like a glove" is what?
(a) A ghost in the darkness.
(b) A shadow.
(c) Gone.
(d) Your own flesh and blood.

12. The author writes that "most people could live perfectly well without any ____ at all--and even if they regretted its absence it would not hamper their functioning in any way."
(a) Sex.
(b) Art.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Love.

13. 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?
(a) Peter Brook.
(b) Antoine Artaud.
(c) Peter Sellers.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

14. 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."

15. "The moment of performance, when it comes, is reached through two passageways--the foyer and the..." what?
(a) Stage door.
(b) Balcony.
(c) Exit.
(d) Orchestra pit.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the pioneer figures in the movement towards a renewed Shakespeare was whom?

2. The author writes of the architecture of theatres in saying, "as for theatres, the problem of design cannot start" how?

3. In the cinema, who, according to the author, has single-handedly brought about a revolution by showing how relative the reality of a photographed scene can be?

4. 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."

5. 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"?

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