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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. "The epic writer of _____ plays seldom brings to his work this same fine sense of human individuality: perhaps because he is unwilling to regard a man's strength and a man's weakness with equal impartiality."
(a) Dadaist.
(b) Surrealist.
(c) Marxist.
(d) Absurdist.

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

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

4. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?
(a) Economic.
(b) Space.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Socialist.

5. Which playwright does the author hold in the greatest esteem as one who combines the Rough Theatre with the Holy Theatre?
(a) Albee.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Brecht.
(d) Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Brook, "Beckett's dark plays are plays of ______, where the desperate object created is witness of the ferocity of the wish to bear witness to the truth."

2. In which Shakespearean play is a main character named Cornelia?

3. "In the theatre, the tendency for centuries has been to put the actor" where?

4. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?

5. What group is led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?

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