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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. "Brecht recognized this and in his last years he surprised his associates by saying that the theatre must be ____."
(a) Bold.
(b) Dishonest.
(c) Naive.
(d) Brazen.

2. 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?
(a) Seven.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Ten.

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) Magnitude.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Actors.

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

5. "In the theatre, the tendency for centuries has been to put the actor" where?
(a) In the air.
(b) On a screen.
(c) At a remote distance.
(d) Close to us.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. The author writes, "What has not been appreciated sufficiently is that the freedom of movement of the ____ theatre was not only a matter of scenery."

3. 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"?

4. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?

5. In what Shakespearean play is Gloucester blinded?

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