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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. Who wrote The Three Sisters?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Brecht.
(c) Marlowe.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

3. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."
(a) Poverty.
(b) Love.
(c) Religion.
(d) Desperation.

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

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) Weeping uncontrollably.
(d) Pretending to be a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. Which playwright does the author hold in the greatest esteem as one who combines the Rough Theatre with the Holy Theatre?

5. What artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?

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