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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 is fast disappearing from modern-day life?
(a) Creative impulses.
(b) Imperial gestures.
(c) Beliefs in ideals.
(d) Understanding of truths.

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"?
(a) Comedie Francaise.
(b) The West End.
(c) Theatre de Francaise.
(d) Broadway.

3. "When the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear toured through Europe, the production was steadily improving and the best performances lay between" where?
(a) Paris and Sicily.
(b) Moscow and Ukraine.
(c) Norway and Ireland.
(d) Budapest and Moscow.

4. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Space.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Economic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?

2. The author points out that the best dramatists explain themselves how (regarding stage direction)?

3. A word is an end product which begins with what?

4. "When we accept Beckett's statement as it is, then suddenly all is _______."

5. The author contends that "we do not know how to celebrate, because we do not know ____ to celebrate."

(see the answer key)

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