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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 does the author say is the most influential of modern writers?
(a) Bertolt Brecht.
(b) Clifford Odets.
(c) Tennessee Williams.
(d) Merce Cunningham.

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

3. In which Shakespearean play is a main character named Cornelia?
(a) Faust.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

4. What does the author refer to Meyerhold's experiments as?
(a) Humanistic.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Physiological.
(d) Bio-mechanical.

5. According to Brook, "We can try to capture the invisible but we must not lose touch" with what?
(a) Reality.
(b) The audience.
(c) Money.
(d) Common sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author points out that the best dramatists explain themselves how (regarding stage direction)?

2. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?

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

4. The author writes of the architecture of theatres in saying, "as for theatres, the problem of design cannot start" how?

5. "In the theatre, the tendency for centuries has been to put the actor" where?

(see the answer key)

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