b. Waiting for Godot was written by Peter Hall.c

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Reading Comprehension Questions
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Which of the following provides the best definition of the term
avant-garde as the author intends it in the passage?
a. innovative
b. unintelligible
c. foreign
d. high-brow
354.
Which of the following best describes the attitude of the author of the passage toward the play Waiting for Godot?
a. It was a curiosity in theater history.
b. It is the most important play of the twentieth century.
c. It is too repetitious.
d. It represents a turning point in stage history.
Literature that is intended to be performed or acted out such as a stage play. All of Shakespeare’s plays, for example, are dramas.
DRAMA
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Reading Comprehension Questions
Plato, the famous Greek philosopher, taught that the things of the world around us are merely copies or shadows of greater, eternal realities. He used a metaphor of people living inside a cave to convey his ideas. The people inside the cave could not seethe world outside the cave, they could only see shadows of people and animals as they passed by.
Plato was suggesting that the shadows would seem very real and alive to the people inside the cave, because that was all they had ever seen of the outside world. But these shadows were not the real, living creatures of the outside world, they were merely reflections of them. Plato’s point was that this temporal world is a ______________ of some greater, eternal reality.
355.
The word that would most accurately fit the blank at the end of the second paragraph is

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