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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) The audience.
(b) Reality.
(c) Money.
(d) Common sense.

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

3. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?
(a) Finding truth.
(b) Creative explosion.
(c) True impulse.
(d) Artistic risks.

4. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Four.

5. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?
(a) Cunningham's.
(b) Brook's.
(c) Beckett's.
(d) Grotowski's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."

3. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?

4. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?

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

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