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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. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?
(a) Falseness.
(b) Manner.
(c) Style.
(d) Baseness.

2. Whose recent production of Coriolanus underlines the whole question of where illusion begins and ends, according to the author (and the time the book was written)?
(a) The Royal Shakespeare Company.
(b) The Swan Theatre.
(c) The Berliner Ensemble's.
(d) Old Vic.

3. "Brecht recognized this and in his last years he surprised his associates by saying that the theatre must be ____."
(a) Brazen.
(b) Bold.
(c) Naive.
(d) Dishonest.

4. Whose "plays are symbols in an exact sense of the word. A false symbol is soft and vague: a true symbol is hard and clear"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Tennessee Williams.
(c) Harold Pinter.
(d) James Joyce.

5. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?
(a) The Immediate Theatre.
(b) The Holy Theatre.
(c) The Dead Theatre.
(d) The Living Theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?

2. The Rough Theatre deals with men's what?

3. What does the author refer to Meyerhold's experiments as?

4. What is the Haitian voodoo priest called?

5. Who "spent his life railing against the theatre of illusion, but his most treasured memories were of painted trees and forests and his eyes would light up as he described effects of trompe d'Å“il"?

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