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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 wrote Sergeant Musgrave's Dance?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Sam Shepard.
(c) John Arden.
(d) Alfred Jarry.

2. What director/playwright was rooted in the cabaret?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Peter Brook.
(c) Meyerhold.
(d) Bertolt Brecht.

3. Who does the author say is the most influential of modern writers?
(a) Merce Cunningham.
(b) Clifford Odets.
(c) Tennessee Williams.
(d) Bertolt Brecht.

4. Who "is the key figure of our time, and all theatre work today at some point starts or returns to his statements and achievement," according to Brook?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Osbourne.
(c) Pinter.
(d) Brecht.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did the author institute a group with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre called the Theatre of Cruelty?

2. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?

3. 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?

4. 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"?

5. Which company is mentioned by the author as using time well, rehearsing approximately 12 months for performances?

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