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

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

3. 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) The Tempest.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Henry VIII.
(d) Measure for Measure.

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

5. The author writes of the architecture of theatres in saying, "as for theatres, the problem of design cannot start" how?
(a) Viscerally.
(b) Logically.
(c) Demandingly.
(d) Illogically.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says in "The Immediate Theatre", "At least one can see that everything is a _______ for something and nothing is a _______ for everything."

2. In what show is the climax of the first part one in which the stage action is a scribbling graffiti of war on to vast white surfaces, while a monument is formed to colonialism and revolution?

3. What play was conceived by Peter Weiss, and based on many ideals of Brecht?

4. Of what does the author describe, "the moment when the illogical breaks through our everyday understanding to make us open our eyes more widely"?

5. The author believes that an architect of the theatre is better off if he works like a what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author's presumed opinion of the works and style of Brecht? How is Brecht similar to Shakespeare?

2. The author gives a formula for creating and defining theatre. What is this formula?

3. How does the author feel that Brecht approaches the "Holy"?

4. How does the author describe the difference between staging in "rough" theatre versus traditional theatre?

5. How does the author compare the cinema to the theatre?

6. In contemporary theatre, what does the author say is the most accessible way to find "holiness"?

7. How does the author view "pre-planning" in approaching a rehearsal process?

8. What is the difference and similarity between a "Happening" and "alienation"?

9. How does the author view Method acting?

10. What does the author say of change and liberation regarding "The Rough Theatre"?

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