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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 Brook, "Beckett's dark plays are plays of ______, where the desperate object created is witness of the ferocity of the wish to bear witness to the truth."
(a) Obscurity.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Questioning.
(d) Light.

2. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?
(a) Formosa Opera Company.
(b) Siam Opera Company.
(c) Pekin Opera Company.
(d) Xing Opera Company.

3. There is often a call for performing the classics in what way?
(a) In a modern way.
(b) Without regard to language.
(c) As they were performed.
(d) As they were written.

4. The author believes that an architect of the theatre is better off if he works like a what?
(a) Visceral artist.
(b) Community builder.
(c) Costume designer.
(d) Scene designer.

5. The author writes that "a most powerful explanation of the various arts is that they talk of..." what?
(a) Light.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Patterns.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A word is an end product which begins with what?

3. 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?

4. Who "influenced Europe for half a century through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?

5. What are some of the physical aspects of the alienation effect?

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