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

2. Which production does the author refer to in Paris which was a flop, so they offered three free performances?
(a) Sergeant Musgrave's Dance.
(b) Les Miserables.
(c) La Boheme.
(d) Caucasian Chalk Circle.

3. Whose recent production of Coriolanus underlines the whole question of where illusion begins and ends, according to the author (and the time the book was written)?
(a) The Swan Theatre.
(b) The Berliner Ensemble's.
(c) Old Vic.
(d) The Royal Shakespeare Company.

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"?
(a) An alienation effect.
(b) A fortitude.
(c) A Happening effect.
(d) A realization.

5. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Meisner.
(c) Adler.
(d) Meyerhold.

Short Answer Questions

1. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?

2. "When we accept Beckett's statement as it is, then suddenly all is _______."

3. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?

4. The author claims that a "true symbol" is what?

5. 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"?

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