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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 theory of what is: "a spectator can be jolted eventually into new sight, so that he wakes to the life around him"?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Cruelty.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Happenings.

2. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?
(a) Label.
(b) Applause.
(c) Feeling.
(d) Necessity.

3. Where did the author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) The Hamburg Opera.
(c) The London Globe.
(d) The Royal Shakespeare Company.

4. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?
(a) Creative impulses.
(b) Understanding of truths.
(c) Imperial gestures.
(d) Beliefs in ideals.

5. Who "influenced Europe for half a century through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?
(a) Antoine Artaud.
(b) Gordon Craig.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Martha Graham.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?

2. Whose speech in Shakespeare holds the line, "Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter," despite the fact that the character who speaks it is considered "wicked"?

3. Who from the Martha Graham company has evolved a ballet company whose daily exercises are a continual preparation for the shock of freedom?

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

5. Where did the author see a production in which a young actor "stood in front of a very old one and spoke and mimed the role with him like a reflection in a glass"?

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