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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. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?
(a) Cinema.
(b) Burlesque.
(c) Art museums.
(d) Television.

2. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?
(a) True impulse.
(b) Artistic risks.
(c) Creative explosion.
(d) Finding truth.

3. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?
(a) Monster.
(b) Machine.
(c) Man.
(d) Forest.

4. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."
(a) Magnitude.
(b) Authorship.
(c) Actors.
(d) Creativity.

5. Where did the author see a production in which a young actor "stood in front of a very old one and spoke and mimed the role with him like a reflection in a glass"?
(a) Broadway.
(b) Theatre de Francaise.
(c) The West End.
(d) Comedie Francaise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?

2. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?

3. The author contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?

4. What is the name of Peter Weiss' play about Auschwitz, which the author uses in example?

5. 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"?

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