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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. The author writes, "What has not been appreciated sufficiently is that the freedom of movement of the ____ theatre was not only a matter of scenery."
(a) Elizabethan.
(b) Pagan.
(c) French.
(d) Brechtian.

2. "Figaro or Falstaff or Tartuffe lampoon and debunk through laughter, and the author's purpose is to bring about a _______."
(a) Tear to the eye.
(b) Vision of truth.
(c) Social change.
(d) Radical anarchy.

3. 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) House of Flowers.
(b) La Boheme.
(c) Les Miserables.
(d) Death of a Salesman.

4. Of whom does the author say, "can write the most eloquent language, but the amazing impressions in his plays are very often brought about by the visual inventions with which he juxtaposes serious, beautiful, grotesque and ridiculous elements"?
(a) Jean Genet.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Alfred Jarry.

5. Whose theatre, "in which the imagination, freed by anarchy, flies like a wild bat in and out of every possible shape and style," has it all?
(a) Alfred Jarry's.
(b) Martha Graham's.
(c) Antoine Artaud's.
(d) Spike Milligan's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who once did a production of Love's Labour's Lost where the character called Constable Dull was dressed as a Victorian policeman because his name at once conjured up the typical figure of the London bobby?

2. What type of theatre is usually distinguished by the absence of what is called style?

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

4. 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?

5. The author claims that a "true symbol" is what?

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