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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. Who allegedly saw a play for the first time in their lives and were confronted with Waiting for Godot with no problem at all in following what, to regular theatre-goers, was incomprehensible?
(a) The Chinese army.
(b) San Quentin prisoners.
(c) A circus troupe.
(d) School children.
2. Where did the author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?
(a) The Hamburg Opera.
(b) The London Globe.
(c) The Royal Shakespeare Company.
(d) The Louvre.
3. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?
(a) The Dead Theatre.
(b) The Living Theatre.
(c) The Holy Theatre.
(d) The Immediate Theatre.
4. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?
(a) Creative explosion.
(b) Finding truth.
(c) Artistic risks.
(d) True impulse.
5. What French surrealist of the theatre does the author mention in "Rough Theatre"?
(a) Cocteaux.
(b) Jarry.
(c) Robeieux.
(d) Zouicher.
Short Answer Questions
1. What "can be anywhere, any time, of any duration: nothing is required, nothing is taboo"?
2. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?
3. What is the Haitian voodoo priest called?
4. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."
5. The author writes that, "All through the world theatre audiences are ______".
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