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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. On the first day of rehearsal of what show did its composer, Harold Arlen, arrive wearing a blue cornflower, with champagne and presents for all?
(a) Death of a Salesman.
(b) House of Flowers.
(c) La Boheme.
(d) Les Miserables.

2. The author writes of the architecture of theatres in saying, "as for theatres, the problem of design cannot start" how?
(a) Demandingly.
(b) Viscerally.
(c) Logically.
(d) Illogically.

3. Who "spent his life railing against the theatre of illusion, but his most treasured memories were of painted trees and forests and his eyes would light up as he described effects of trompe d'Å“il"?
(a) Schindler.
(b) Meyerhold.
(c) Gordon Craig.
(d) Stanislavsky.

4. "Brecht recognized this and in his last years he surprised his associates by saying that the theatre must be ____."
(a) Naive.
(b) Dishonest.
(c) Bold.
(d) Brazen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. There is often a call for performing the classics in what way?

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?

3. The author writes that, "All through the world theatre audiences are ______".

4. 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?

5. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?

(see the answer key)

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