Bernstein’s musical, West Side Story, in an updated version of:

a. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
b. Shakespeare’s Hamlet
c. Voltaire’s Candide
d. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
e. Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities


ANSWER: a

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New York's It's Alright to be a Woman Theatre is an example of __________ theatre

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The refined austerity of International-style architecture is best described as

a. "Less is more."
b. "There is no meaning, only existence."
c. "separate but equal"
d. "We wanted to make it new . . ."

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