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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 told the author, "My search is based on the director and the actor. You base yours on the director, actor, audience. I accept that this is possible, but for me it is too indirect"?
(a) Grotowski.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Pierrot.
(d) Gardot.

2. "In Grotowski's terminology, the actor allows a role to '_____' him."
(a) Swallow.
(b) Embody.
(c) Penetrate.
(d) Engulf.

3. A word is an end product which begins with what?
(a) A thought.
(b) An idea.
(c) A motion.
(d) An impulse.

4. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?
(a) New York.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) California.
(d) Philadelphia.

5. According to Brook, "Beckett's dark plays are plays of ______, where the desperate object created is witness of the ferocity of the wish to bear witness to the truth."
(a) Obscurity.
(b) Questioning.
(c) Light.
(d) Sorrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author refer to Meyerhold's experiments as?

2. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?

3. 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"?

4. The Rough Theatre deals with men's what?

5. Who does the author say is the most influential of modern writers?

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