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

2. The sort of play that Shakespeare offers us is never just what?
(a) A Holy play.
(b) A series of events.
(c) A Rough play.
(d) An enlightened tale.

3. Which company is mentioned by the author as using time well, rehearsing approximately 12 months for performances?
(a) Comedie Francaise.
(b) The Berliner Ensemble.
(c) The Pekin Opera.
(d) The National Theatre.

4. Of whom does the author say, "can write the most eloquent language, but the amazing impressions in his plays are very often brought about by the visual inventions with which he juxtaposes serious, beautiful, grotesque and ridiculous elements"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Alfred Jarry.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Jean Genet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Joan Littlewood dressed her soldiers as what to create an alienation effect?

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

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?

4. In what Shakespearean play is Gloucester blinded?

5. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."

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