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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. "Both [rough and holy] theatres feed on deep and true ______ in their audiences."
(a) Attention.
(b) Love.
(c) Aspirations.
(d) Acceptance.

2. What form of theatre does the author discuss first in the book?
(a) Holy Theatre.
(b) Immediate Theatre.
(c) Bad Theatre.
(d) Deadly Theatre.

3. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?
(a) New York.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) California.
(d) Philadelphia.

4. The author believes the science of theatre building demands studying what it is, which brings about the most what?
(a) Vivid relationship between people.
(b) Holiness.
(c) Connectedness with the stage and audience.
(d) Separation of the spectators.

5. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?
(a) Avant garde theatre.
(b) Bad theatre.
(c) Intense theatre.
(d) Great theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who allegedly saw a play for the first time in their lives and were confronted with Waiting for Godot with no problem at all in following what, to regular theatre-goers, was incomprehensible?

2. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?

3. "Just as in life the wearing of old clothes can start as defiance and turn into a posture, so ______ can become an end in itself."

4. 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"?

5. Brook claims there are two ways of "speaking about the human condition: there is the process of inspiration" and the process of what?

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