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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 that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?
(a) The price is too high.
(b) The lack of culture.
(c) The creative impulse doesn't exist.
(d) The work is too shabby.

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

3. What form of theatre does the author discuss first in the book?
(a) Immediate Theatre.
(b) Holy Theatre.
(c) Deadly Theatre.
(d) Bad Theatre.

4. The theatre has often been called what?
(a) A waste.
(b) A whore.
(c) A religion.
(d) A misery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In France, there are how many deadly ways of playing classical tragedy, according to the author?

2. 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?

3. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?

4. The author says of Deadly Theatre, that "just the right degree of _______ is a reassuring guarantee of a worthwhile event."

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

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