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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. In America, the author writes, "Years ago, ______ came into being to give a faith and continuity to those unhappy artists who were being so rapidly thrown in and out of work."
(a) The Stella Adler Studio.
(b) The Neighborhood Playhouse.
(c) The Actor's Studio.
(d) The Stanislavsky Method.

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

3. The theatre is "the last forum" where what is still an open question?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Love.
(c) Idealism.
(d) War.

4. What type of theatre is usually distinguished by the absence of what is called style?
(a) Industrial Theatre.
(b) Holy Theatre.
(c) Rough Theatre.
(d) Classical Theatre.

5. 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) Hamlet.
(b) Ubu Roi.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) The Screens.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Grotowski's theory, "the act of performance is an act of" what?

2. Which production does the author refer to in Paris which was a flop, so they offered three free performances?

3. "Brecht recognized this and in his last years he surprised his associates by saying that the theatre must be ____."

4. Brook claims, "Personally, I find staging _______ can be more thoroughly enjoyable than any other form of theatre."

5. Brook claims there are two ways of "speaking about the human condition: there is the process of inspiration" and the process of what?

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