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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. "Occasion, Event, Happening--the words are..." what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Interchangeable.
(c) Opposing.
(d) Positive.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) Peter Brook.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Peter Sellers.
(d) Antoine Artaud.

5. Who wrote Ubu Roi?
(a) Antoine Artaud.
(b) Merce Cunningham.
(c) Alfred Jarry.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Sergeant Musgrave's Dance?

2. Which country produced a television version of Ubu Roi which captivated the audience with its surrealism?

3. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?

4. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."

5. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?

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