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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Rough Theatre, part 1 (p. 73 to 92).

Multiple Choice 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"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Tennessee Williams.
(c) Harold Pinter.
(d) James Joyce.

2. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Henry V.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) King Lear.

3. In Grotowski's theory, "the act of performance is an act of" what?
(a) Sacrifice.
(b) Love.
(c) Outrage.
(d) Murder.

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

5. 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"?
(a) Desdemona.
(b) Goneril.
(c) Emilia.
(d) Juliet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Brook claims, "Personally, I find staging _______ can be more thoroughly enjoyable than any other form of theatre."

2. Who wrote Sergeant Musgrave's Dance?

3. The author believes the science of theatre building demands studying what it is, which brings about the most what?

4. One of the pioneer figures in the movement towards a renewed Shakespeare was whom?

5. "In the theatre, the tendency for centuries has been to put the actor" where?

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