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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 director/playwright was rooted in the cabaret?
(a) Peter Brook.
(b) Meyerhold.
(c) Bertolt Brecht.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

2. 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?
(a) The Chinese army.
(b) School children.
(c) San Quentin prisoners.
(d) A circus troupe.

3. Whose theatre, "in which the imagination, freed by anarchy, flies like a wild bat in and out of every possible shape and style," has it all?
(a) Alfred Jarry's.
(b) Antoine Artaud's.
(c) Spike Milligan's.
(d) Martha Graham's.

4. What is the Haitian voodoo priest called?
(a) The Krobodos.
(b) The Magic Man.
(c) The Houngan.
(d) The Voodoo.

5. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?
(a) Great theatre.
(b) Bad theatre.
(c) Avant garde theatre.
(d) Intense theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?

2. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?

3. When did the author first go to Stratford?

4. There is often a call for performing the classics in what way?

5. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?

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