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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. According to Brook, "We can try to capture the invisible but we must not lose touch" with what?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Reality.
(c) Money.
(d) The audience.

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) Waiting for Godot.
(b) Crime and Punishment.
(c) The Brothers Karamazov.
(d) Anna Karena.

3. "The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."
(a) Easy.
(b) Incomprehensible.
(c) Super-human.
(d) Tangible.

4. Of what does the author write, "three needs become one: it exists for the sake of performing, it earns its living through performing and its performances contain the most intense and intimate moments of its collective life"?
(a) The Living Theatre.
(b) The Theatre of Cruelty.
(c) The Laboratory.
(d) The Motion Picture Industry.

5. In which Shakespearean play does the Holy/Rough theatre show in Falstaff; the prose realism of the inn scenes on the one hand and the poetic levels of so much else--both elements contained within one complex whole?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Henry VI.
(c) Henry IV.
(d) King Lear.

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 epic writer of _____ plays seldom brings to his work this same fine sense of human individuality: perhaps because he is unwilling to regard a man's strength and a man's weakness with equal impartiality."

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

4. On the first day of rehearsal of what show did its composer, Harold Arlen, arrive wearing a blue cornflower, with champagne and presents for all?

5. What group is led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?

(see the answer key)

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