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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. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?
(a) Meisner.
(b) Adler.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Meyerhold.

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

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

4. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?
(a) Pekin Opera Company.
(b) Xing Opera Company.
(c) Formosa Opera Company.
(d) Siam Opera Company.

5. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?
(a) Screaming loudly.
(b) Standing on a cliff.
(c) Pretending to be a tree.
(d) Weeping uncontrollably.

Short Answer Questions

1. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?

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

3. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?

4. 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?

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

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