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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. In what Shakespearean play is Gloucester blinded?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Henry VI.
(d) Henry IV.

2. Of what does the author write, "three needs become one: it exists for the sake of performing, it earns its living through performing and its performances contain the most intense and intimate moments of its collective life"?
(a) The Motion Picture Industry.
(b) The Living Theatre.
(c) The Laboratory.
(d) The Theatre of Cruelty.

3. Joan Littlewood dressed her soldiers as what to create an alienation effect?
(a) Pierrots.
(b) Parrots.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Monkeys.

4. In regard to music, the author says we may make a personality cult of whom?
(a) The song writer.
(b) The soloist.
(c) The musician.
(d) The conductor.

5. What director/playwright was rooted in the cabaret?
(a) Bertolt Brecht.
(b) Peter Brook.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Meyerhold.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the pioneer figures in the movement towards a renewed Shakespeare was whom?

2. Who told the author, "My search is based on the director and the actor. You base yours on the director, actor, audience. I accept that this is possible, but for me it is too indirect"?

3. What does the author contend is "the only trouble with violent shocks"?

4. In which Shakespearean play does the Holy/Rough theatre show in Falstaff; the prose realism of the inn scenes on the one hand and the poetic levels of so much else--both elements contained within one complex whole?

5. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?

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