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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. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?
(a) Artistic risks.
(b) Creative explosion.
(c) True impulse.
(d) Finding truth.

2. What play was conceived by Peter Weiss, and based on many ideals of Brecht?
(a) The Investigation.
(b) The Screens.
(c) Marat/Sade.
(d) Ubu Roi.

3. What group is led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?
(a) The Dead Theatre.
(b) The Theatre of Cruelty.
(c) The Laboratory.
(d) The Living Theatre.

4. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."
(a) Actors.
(b) Magnitude.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Authorship.

5. What artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?
(a) Jerzy Grotowski.
(b) Andreas Bryg.
(c) Travis Kendowski.
(d) Chaim Potok.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

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

3. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?

4. 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?

5. Joan Littlewood dressed her soldiers as what to create an alienation effect?

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