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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 group is led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?
(a) The Theatre of Cruelty.
(b) The Laboratory.
(c) The Living Theatre.
(d) The Dead Theatre.

2. From what play does the author quote the line, "It was in the year of 18-- that a young student, Roman Rodianovitchi Raskolnikov..."?
(a) Crime and Punishment.
(b) Anna Karena.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) The Brothers Karamazov.

3. The theory of what is: "a spectator can be jolted eventually into new sight, so that he wakes to the life around him"?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Cruelty.
(c) Happenings.
(d) Absurdism.

4. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?
(a) The lack of culture.
(b) The work is too shabby.
(c) The price is too high.
(d) The creative impulse doesn't exist.

5. The author writes, "In Haitian voodoo, all you need to begin a ceremony is a ____ and people."
(a) Stage.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Drum.
(d) Pole.

Short Answer Questions

1. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?

2. The sort of play that Shakespeare offers us is never just what?

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

4. "A director dealing with elements that exist outside of himself can cheat himself into thinking his work more ______ than it is."

5. What artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?

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