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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. 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) Juliet.
(b) Desdemona.
(c) Emilia.
(d) Goneril.

2. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?
(a) Xing Opera Company.
(b) Pekin Opera Company.
(c) Formosa Opera Company.
(d) Siam Opera Company.

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

4. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) The Investigation.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Marat/Sade.

5. What is the theatre district in London called?
(a) East End.
(b) SoHo.
(c) West End.
(d) Broadway.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes that, "All through the world theatre audiences are ______".

2. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?

3. "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."

4. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?

5. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?

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