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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 British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?
(a) Pinter.
(b) Shepard.
(c) Sletteland.
(d) Williams.

2. Of whom does the author say, "can write the most eloquent language, but the amazing impressions in his plays are very often brought about by the visual inventions with which he juxtaposes serious, beautiful, grotesque and ridiculous elements"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Alfred Jarry.
(d) Jean Genet.

3. Of whom does the author write, "never just made a slice of life--he was a doctor who with infinite gentleness and care took thousands and thousands of fine layers off life."
(a) Brecht.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Shakespeare.

4. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?
(a) Gets raves.
(b) Makes less money.
(c) Makes more money.
(d) Bombs.

5. "In Grotowski's terminology, the actor allows a role to '_____' him."
(a) Engulf.
(b) Embody.
(c) Penetrate.
(d) Swallow.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Occasion, Event, Happening--the words are..." what?

2. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?

3. What play was conceived by Peter Weiss, and based on many ideals of Brecht?

4. 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)?

5. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?

(see the answer key)

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