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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. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."
(a) Drama.
(b) Magnitude.
(c) Art.
(d) Theatre.

2. 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?
(a) Six years.
(b) Five months.
(c) One year.
(d) Two years.

3. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?
(a) California.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) New York.

4. What era was a thriving point for Jouvet and Bérard, Jean-Louis Barrault, Clave at the ballet, Don Juan, Amphitryon, La Folk de Chaillot, Carmen, and others?
(a) The 1800s.
(b) The 1940s.
(c) The 1920s.
(d) The 1960s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?

2. The author opines that "today the theatre of doubting, of unease, of trouble, of alarm, seems truer than the theatre" with what?

3. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?

4. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?

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

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