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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 play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?
(a) Henry V.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

2. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?
(a) True impulse.
(b) Finding truth.
(c) Artistic risks.
(d) Creative explosion.

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

4. Which production does the author refer to in Paris which was a flop, so they offered three free performances?
(a) La Boheme.
(b) Sergeant Musgrave's Dance.
(c) Caucasian Chalk Circle.
(d) Les Miserables.

5. "The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."
(a) Tangible.
(b) Super-human.
(c) Easy.
(d) Incomprehensible.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes, "Of course nowhere does the Deadly Theatre install itself so securely, so comfortably and so slyly as in the works of" whom?

2. What form of theatre does the author discuss first in the book?

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

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

5. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?

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