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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) Being idiots.
(b) Cheating the critics.
(c) Cheating themselves.
(d) Lying to the authors.

2. A word is an end product which begins with what?
(a) An idea.
(b) A thought.
(c) An impulse.
(d) A motion.

3. "The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."
(a) Incomprehensible.
(b) Tangible.
(c) Easy.
(d) Super-human.

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

5. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."
(a) Magnitude.
(b) Drama.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Art.

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. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?

3. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?

4. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?

5. What does the author say is nonexistent in today's world?

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