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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 artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?
(a) Travis Kendowski.
(b) Chaim Potok.
(c) Jerzy Grotowski.
(d) Andreas Bryg.

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

3. According to Brook, "Beckett's dark plays are plays of ______, where the desperate object created is witness of the ferocity of the wish to bear witness to the truth."
(a) Obscurity.
(b) Questioning.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Light.

4. Joan Littlewood dressed her soldiers as what to create an alienation effect?
(a) Monsters.
(b) Pierrots.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Parrots.

5. 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 price is too high.
(b) The creative impulse doesn't exist.
(c) The work is too shabby.
(d) The lack of culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. "When the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear toured through Europe, the production was steadily improving and the best performances lay between" where?

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

4. The author contends that ______ "is a model of a theatre that contains Brecht and Beckett, but goes beyond both."

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

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