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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. For which Shakespearean play is it true that "as long as scholars could not decide whether this play was a comedy or not, it never got played"?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Henry VIII.
(c) Measure for Measure.
(d) The Tempest.

2. Brook claims, "Personally, I find staging _______ can be more thoroughly enjoyable than any other form of theatre."
(a) A musical.
(b) A Surrealist production.
(c) A mime show.
(d) An opera.

3. "The epic writer of _____ plays seldom brings to his work this same fine sense of human individuality: perhaps because he is unwilling to regard a man's strength and a man's weakness with equal impartiality."
(a) Dadaist.
(b) Surrealist.
(c) Marxist.
(d) Absurdist.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In regard to music, the author says we may make a personality cult of whom?

2. What does the author refer to Meyerhold's experiments as?

3. The Rough Theatre deals with men's what?

4. Which production does the author refer to in Paris which was a flop, so they offered three free performances?

5. What used to be the great symbol of a whole school of theatre?

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