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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 wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?
(a) James Jackson.
(b) Peter Brook.
(c) Harold Clurman.
(d) Truman Capote.

2. Who wrote The Three Sisters?
(a) Brecht.
(b) Marlowe.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Shakespeare.

3. 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)?
(a) The Berliner Ensemble's.
(b) Old Vic.
(c) The Swan Theatre.
(d) The Royal Shakespeare Company.

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

5. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Economic.
(d) Space.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The epic writer of _____ plays seldom brings to his work this same fine sense of human individuality: perhaps because he is unwilling to regard a man's strength and a man's weakness with equal impartiality."

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

3. Brook claims there are two ways of "speaking about the human condition: there is the process of inspiration" and the process of what?

4. In the cinema, who, according to the author, has single-handedly brought about a revolution by showing how relative the reality of a photographed scene can be?

5. What is the Haitian voodoo priest called?

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