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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 describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Marat/Sade.
(d) The Investigation.

2. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."
(a) Authorship.
(b) Actors.
(c) Magnitude.
(d) Creativity.

3. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?
(a) One year.
(b) Six years.
(c) Five months.
(d) Two years.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?

2. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?

3. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?

4. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?

5. "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."

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