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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Rough Theatre, part 1 (p. 73 to 92).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Brook claims there are two ways of "speaking about the human condition: there is the process of inspiration" and the process of what?
(a) Honest vision.
(b) Desire.
(c) Fear.
(d) Truth.

2. Of what does the author write, "three needs become one: it exists for the sake of performing, it earns its living through performing and its performances contain the most intense and intimate moments of its collective life"?
(a) The Living Theatre.
(b) The Motion Picture Industry.
(c) The Theatre of Cruelty.
(d) The Laboratory.

3. What does the author say is nonexistent in today's world?
(a) A fight for truth.
(b) A Deadly Theatre.
(c) A true theatre of joy.
(d) A competition with film.

4. Who "spent his life railing against the theatre of illusion, but his most treasured memories were of painted trees and forests and his eyes would light up as he described effects of trompe d'Å“il"?
(a) Gordon Craig.
(b) Schindler.
(c) Meyerhold.
(d) Stanislavsky.

5. The author believes that an architect of the theatre is better off if he works like a what?
(a) Visceral artist.
(b) Costume designer.
(c) Community builder.
(d) Scene designer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes that "a most powerful explanation of the various arts is that they talk of..." what?

2. What is the theatre district in London called?

3. What "is above all an appeal to the spectator to work for himself, so to become more and more responsible for accepting what he sees only if it is convincing to him in an adult way"?

4. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?

5. The author opines that "today the theatre of doubting, of unease, of trouble, of alarm, seems truer than the theatre" with what?

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