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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Rough Theatre, part 2 (p. 93 to 109).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The theatre has often been called what?
(a) A waste.
(b) A religion.
(c) A whore.
(d) A misery.

2. Every work and every period has its own what?
(a) Style.
(b) Cadence.
(c) Eloquence.
(d) Mannerism.

3. "Occasion, Event, Happening--the words are..." what?
(a) Interchangeable.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Opposing.
(d) Positive.

4. "The epic writer of _____ plays seldom brings to his work this same fine sense of human individuality: perhaps because he is unwilling to regard a man's strength and a man's weakness with equal impartiality."
(a) Surrealist.
(b) Dadaist.
(c) Absurdist.
(d) Marxist.

5. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?
(a) The Immediate Theatre.
(b) The Holy Theatre.
(c) The Living Theatre.
(d) The Dead Theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which Shakespearean play does the Holy/Rough theatre show in Falstaff; the prose realism of the inn scenes on the one hand and the poetic levels of so much else--both elements contained within one complex whole?

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. Who "influenced Europe for half a century through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?

4. When did the author first go to Stratford?

5. "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."

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