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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. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?
(a) Screaming loudly.
(b) Pretending to be a tree.
(c) Standing on a cliff.
(d) Weeping uncontrollably.

2. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) King Lear.
(d) A Midsummer Night's Dream.

3. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) New York.
(c) California.
(d) Connecticut.

4. "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) Norway and Ireland.
(b) Budapest and Moscow.
(c) Moscow and Ukraine.
(d) Paris and Sicily.

5. What is the theatre district in London called?
(a) East End.
(b) SoHo.
(c) West End.
(d) Broadway.

Short Answer Questions

1. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?

2. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."

3. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?

4. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?

5. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?

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