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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Deadly Theatre, part 2 (p. 30-46).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?
(a) Cheating themselves.
(b) Being idiots.
(c) Cheating the critics.
(d) Lying to the authors.

4. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?
(a) Six years.
(b) Two years.
(c) One year.
(d) Five months.

5. What is the name of Peter Weiss' play about Auschwitz, which the author uses in example?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) The Investigation.
(c) The Diary of Anne Frank.
(d) Final Hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?

2. In America, the author writes, "Years ago, ______ came into being to give a faith and continuity to those unhappy artists who were being so rapidly thrown in and out of work."

3. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?

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

5. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?

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