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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. Of whom does the author say, "His aim continually is holy, metaphysical, yet he never makes the mistake of staying too long on the highest plane"?
(a) Pinter.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Artaud.
(d) Beckett.

2. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?
(a) The Holy Theatre.
(b) The Living Theatre.
(c) The Immediate Theatre.
(d) The Dead Theatre.

3. 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) San Quentin prisoners.
(b) The Chinese army.
(c) School children.
(d) A circus troupe.

4. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?
(a) Bombs.
(b) Makes less money.
(c) Gets raves.
(d) Makes more money.

5. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Grotowski.
(c) Jenet.
(d) Artaud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?

2. In which play does Leontes accuse his wife of infidelity?

3. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?

4. 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?

5. The author opines that "today the theatre of doubting, of unease, of trouble, of alarm, seems truer than the theatre" with what?

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