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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Deadly Theatre, part 2 (p. 30-46).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?
(a) Cheating themselves.
(b) Being idiots.
(c) Lying to the authors.
(d) Cheating the critics.

2. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?
(a) Shepard.
(b) Sletteland.
(c) Williams.
(d) Pinter.

3. In France, there are how many deadly ways of playing classical tragedy, according to the author?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Ten.

4. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Economic.
(c) Space.
(d) Artistic.

5. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?
(a) Man.
(b) Machine.
(c) Monster.
(d) Forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where did the author see a production in which a young actor "stood in front of a very old one and spoke and mimed the role with him like a reflection in a glass"?

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. Approximately how long is a rehearsal process in New York, according to the author?

5. "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?

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