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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) Adler.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Meyerhold.
(d) Meisner.

2. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?
(a) Two years.
(b) Five months.
(c) Six years.
(d) One year.

3. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Henry V.
(d) Hamlet.

4. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."
(a) Magnitude.
(b) Authorship.
(c) Actors.
(d) Creativity.

5. "Occasion, Event, Happening--the words are..." what?
(a) Interchangeable.
(b) Positive.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Opposing.

Short Answer 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?

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

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

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

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

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