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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. 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?
(a) House of Flowers.
(b) Death of a Salesman.
(c) Les Miserables.
(d) La Boheme.

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

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) Hamlet.
(b) Ubu Roi.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) The Screens.

4. The author contends that ______ "is a model of a theatre that contains Brecht and Beckett, but goes beyond both."
(a) Albee.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Marlowe.
(d) Williams.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?

2. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?

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

4. 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?

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

(see the answer key)

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