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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. In regard to music, the author says we may make a personality cult of whom?
(a) The song writer.
(b) The musician.
(c) The conductor.
(d) The soloist.

2. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?
(a) Truman Capote.
(b) James Jackson.
(c) Harold Clurman.
(d) Peter Brook.

3. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?
(a) Meyerhold.
(b) Meisner.
(c) Adler.
(d) Chekhov.

4. "The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."
(a) Super-human.
(b) Incomprehensible.
(c) Easy.
(d) Tangible.

5. Where did the author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) The Hamburg Opera.
(c) The Royal Shakespeare Company.
(d) The London Globe.

Short Answer 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?

2. Who theorized the "Theatre of Cruelty"?

3. Who once did a production of Love's Labour's Lost where the character called Constable Dull was dressed as a Victorian policeman because his name at once conjured up the typical figure of the London bobby?

4. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?

5. One of the pioneer figures in the movement towards a renewed Shakespeare was whom?

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