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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. Brook claims there are two ways of "speaking about the human condition: there is the process of inspiration" and the process of what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Fear.
(c) Honest vision.
(d) Desire.

2. In Paris, Brook directed what show in which he did all in his power to inhibit applause, because appreciation of the actor's talents seemed irrelevant in a Concentration Camp document?
(a) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?
(b) The Representative.
(c) The Tempest.
(d) The Investigation.

3. "When the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear toured through Europe, the production was steadily improving and the best performances lay between" where?
(a) Budapest and Moscow.
(b) Paris and Sicily.
(c) Norway and Ireland.
(d) Moscow and Ukraine.

4. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) The Investigation.
(c) Marat/Sade.
(d) Hamlet.

5. The author writes, "What has not been appreciated sufficiently is that the freedom of movement of the ____ theatre was not only a matter of scenery."
(a) Brechtian.
(b) Pagan.
(c) French.
(d) Elizabethan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose "plays are symbols in an exact sense of the word. A false symbol is soft and vague: a true symbol is hard and clear"?

2. In what Shakespearean play does the "very subtle construction hinges on the key moment when a statue comes to life"?

3. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?

4. Which playwright does the author hold in the greatest esteem as one who combines the Rough Theatre with the Holy Theatre?

5. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?

(see the answer key)

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