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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes that "a most powerful explanation of the various arts is that they talk of..." what?
(a) Light.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Patterns.
(d) Beauty.

2. "The actor's work is never for _______, yet always is for one."
(a) A director.
(b) Another actor.
(c) An audience.
(d) A critic.

3. Of what does the author write, "three needs become one: it exists for the sake of performing, it earns its living through performing and its performances contain the most intense and intimate moments of its collective life"?
(a) The Motion Picture Industry.
(b) The Theatre of Cruelty.
(c) The Laboratory.
(d) The Living Theatre.

4. "When we accept Beckett's statement as it is, then suddenly all is _______."
(a) Desolate.
(b) Devastated.
(c) True.
(d) Transformed.

5. What is the Haitian voodoo priest called?
(a) The Houngan.
(b) The Voodoo.
(c) The Krobodos.
(d) The Magic Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. A word is an end product which begins with what?

2. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?

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

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

5. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What metaphor does the author use for the theatre in the first section of the book, and what is his meaning?

2. What does the author say about New York theatre and its economic focus?

3. What playwright does the author write of whose work transcends the absurd?

4. What is "The Happening," and what difficulty does it pose?

5. What are the four forms of theatre the author discusses, and where can they be found?

6. Describe Brook's "Theatre of Cruelty." Whose concepts and theories was this based upon?

7. What does the author remark about "style" in terms of how to approach it?

8. How is "The Happening" similar to the Haitian voodoo ritual?

9. Who is the third theatre practitioner the author discusses regarding examples of Holy Theatre, and why?

10. What role does the critic play in the world of theatre?

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