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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) King Lear.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Henry V.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

2. The author points out that the best dramatists explain themselves how (regarding stage direction)?
(a) The most.
(b) Intricately.
(c) The least.
(d) Creatively.

3. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?
(a) Label.
(b) Necessity.
(c) Feeling.
(d) Applause.

4. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?
(a) Man.
(b) Monster.
(c) Forest.
(d) Machine.

5. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?
(a) Understanding of truths.
(b) Creative impulses.
(c) Imperial gestures.
(d) Beliefs in ideals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Every work and every period has its own what?

2. Whose speech in Shakespeare holds the line, "Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter," despite the fact that the character who speaks it is considered "wicked"?

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

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

5. 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?

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