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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. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Meyerhold.
(c) Adler.
(d) Meisner.

2. 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"?
(a) Henry VIII.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Measure for Measure.
(d) The Tempest.

3. In what show is the climax of the first part one in which the stage action is a scribbling graffiti of war on to vast white surfaces, while a monument is formed to colonialism and revolution?
(a) Ubu Roi.
(b) The Screens.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) Hamlet.

4. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."
(a) The Meisner Actor.
(b) The Classical Actor.
(c) The Chekhovian Actor.
(d) The Method Actor.

5. Approximately how long is a rehearsal process in New York, according to the author?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) One week.
(c) Two months.
(d) Six weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?

2. In which Shakespearean play is a main character named Cornelia?

3. In what Shakespearean play is Gloucester blinded?

4. In which play does Leontes accuse his wife of infidelity?

5. 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)?

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