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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. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?
(a) French Theatre.
(b) Indian Theatre.
(c) Noh Theatre.
(d) Shakespearean Theatre.

2. The author writes that, "All through the world theatre audiences are ______".
(a) Suffering.
(b) Struggling.
(c) Dwindling.
(d) Expanding.

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

4. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."
(a) The Chekhovian Actor.
(b) The Method Actor.
(c) The Meisner Actor.
(d) The Classical Actor.

5. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?
(a) Sletteland.
(b) Pinter.
(c) Williams.
(d) Shepard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?

2. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?

3. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?

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

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

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