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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. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?
(a) Ritual.
(b) Worship.
(c) Nobility.
(d) Love.

2. Which country produced a television version of Ubu Roi which captivated the audience with its surrealism?
(a) Czechoslavakia.
(b) Britain.
(c) France.
(d) Israel.

3. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?
(a) Standing on a cliff.
(b) Screaming loudly.
(c) Weeping uncontrollably.
(d) Pretending to be a tree.

4. One of the pioneer figures in the movement towards a renewed Shakespeare was whom?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) William Poel.
(c) Michael Crandon.
(d) Bertolt Brecht.

5. Brook claims there are two ways of "speaking about the human condition: there is the process of inspiration" and the process of what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Desire.
(c) Honest vision.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom does the author say, "His aim continually is holy, metaphysical, yet he never makes the mistake of staying too long on the highest plane"?

2. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."

3. Which company is mentioned by the author as using time well, rehearsing approximately 12 months for performances?

4. The author writes of the architecture of theatres in saying, "as for theatres, the problem of design cannot start" how?

5. Who from the Martha Graham company has evolved a ballet company whose daily exercises are a continual preparation for the shock of freedom?

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