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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Rough Theatre, part 2 (p. 93 to 109).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What play was conceived by Peter Weiss, and based on many ideals of Brecht?
(a) Marat/Sade.
(b) The Screens.
(c) Ubu Roi.
(d) The Investigation.

2. The author opines that "today the theatre of doubting, of unease, of trouble, of alarm, seems truer than the theatre" with what?
(a) A sad ending.
(b) A happy ending.
(c) A noble aim.
(d) A generous spirit.

3. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?
(a) Beckett's.
(b) Cunningham's.
(c) Grotowski's.
(d) Brook's.

4. In what show is the climax of the first part one in which the stage action is a scribbling graffiti of war on to vast white surfaces, while a monument is formed to colonialism and revolution?
(a) Waiting for Godot.
(b) The Screens.
(c) Ubu Roi.
(d) Hamlet.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The strongest comedy is rooted in what?

3. The author believes that an architect of the theatre is better off if he works like a what?

4. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?

5. What group is led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?

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