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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. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?
(a) Love.
(b) Nobility.
(c) Worship.
(d) Ritual.

2. What group is led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?
(a) The Living Theatre.
(b) The Theatre of Cruelty.
(c) The Dead Theatre.
(d) The Laboratory.

3. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Henry V.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

4. With whom did the author institute a group with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre called the Theatre of Cruelty?
(a) Charles Marowitz.
(b) Arthur Miller.
(c) Harold Pinter.
(d) Celice Dayton.

5. 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"?
(a) Realism.
(b) Romance.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Alienation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom does the author say, "His aim continually is holy, metaphysical, yet he never makes the mistake of staying too long on the highest plane"?

2. 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"?

3. The author says of Deadly Theatre, that "just the right degree of _______ is a reassuring guarantee of a worthwhile event."

4. 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"?

5. Whose "plays are symbols in an exact sense of the word. A false symbol is soft and vague: a true symbol is hard and clear"?

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