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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. What artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?
(a) Chaim Potok.
(b) Andreas Bryg.
(c) Jerzy Grotowski.
(d) Travis Kendowski.

2. Which playwright does the author hold in the greatest esteem as one who combines the Rough Theatre with the Holy Theatre?
(a) Albee.
(b) Brecht.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Beckett.

3. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?
(a) Henry V.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

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

5. 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) Light.
(b) Obscurity.
(c) Questioning.
(d) Sorrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?

2. The theatre has often been called what?

3. "A director dealing with elements that exist outside of himself can cheat himself into thinking his work more ______ than it is."

4. What director/playwright was rooted in the cabaret?

5. Every work and every period has its own what?

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