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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 is the theatre district in London called?
(a) West End.
(b) Broadway.
(c) SoHo.
(d) East End.

2. Who allegedly saw a play for the first time in their lives and were confronted with Waiting for Godot with no problem at all in following what, to regular theatre-goers, was incomprehensible?
(a) A circus troupe.
(b) The Chinese army.
(c) School children.
(d) San Quentin prisoners.

3. 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?
(a) Seven.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Ten.

4. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?
(a) Intense theatre.
(b) Bad theatre.
(c) Avant garde theatre.
(d) Great theatre.

5. Who "is the key figure of our time, and all theatre work today at some point starts or returns to his statements and achievement," according to Brook?
(a) Pinter.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Brecht.
(d) Osbourne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author say is the most influential of modern writers?

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

3. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?

4. The author writes, "Of course nowhere does the Deadly Theatre install itself so securely, so comfortably and so slyly as in the works of" whom?

5. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."

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