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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1947-1948 (Zurich).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What needs to be alienated in epic theatre depends on the _____ demanded by the entire episode.
(a) Character position.
(b) Prop position.
(c) Exposition.
(d) Composition.

2. In terms of aesthetics, Galileo spoke of the elegance of certain _____.
(a) External techniques.
(b) Formulae.
(c) Subjects.
(d) Fundamentalist tendencies.

3. Which aspect of epic theatre added statistical material?
(a) Projections.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Leaflets.
(d) A narrator.

4. What aspect of opera does Brecht think the public adores?
(a) Its backwardness.
(b) Its lavishness.
(c) Its music.
(d) Its truth.

5. In Life of Galileo, the child's true mother is found by means of a _____.
(a) Native totem.
(b) Ouija board.
(c) Seance.
(d) Chalk circle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the best-known composer that Brecht worked with?

2. Where dramatic theatre emphasizes plot, epic theatre emphasizes _____.

3. In one of Brecht's examples of how projections were used, projections of warships being launched were running while two characters were fighting over _____.

4. _____ with a character should be treated as just another method of observation in rehearsals.

5. In Life of Galileo, Richard Gloster courts _____.

(see the answer key)

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