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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Rough Theatre, part 2 (p. 93 to 109).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."
(a) Actors.
(b) Magnitude.
(c) Authorship.
(d) Creativity.

2. The author claims that a "true symbol" is what?
(a) Silent.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Specific.

3. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?
(a) New York.
(b) California.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Connecticut.

4. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?
(a) The Investigation.
(b) Marat/Sade.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

5. What is the name of Peter Weiss' play about Auschwitz, which the author uses in example?
(a) Final Hour.
(b) The Investigation.
(c) The Diary of Anne Frank.
(d) Auschwitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Brook, "We can try to capture the invisible but we must not lose touch" with what?

2. In Grotowski's theory, "the act of performance is an act of" what?

3. The author writes, "In Haitian voodoo, all you need to begin a ceremony is a ____ and people."

4. Whose "plays are symbols in an exact sense of the word. A false symbol is soft and vague: a true symbol is hard and clear"?

5. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?

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