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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Film projections became an integral part of the _____ in epic theatre.
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Setting.
(c) Coercion.
(d) Plot.

2. Which work by Goethe was better as a book than a theatrical production, according to Brecht?
(a) Der Zauberlehrling.
(b) Iphigenie auf Tauris.
(c) Der Erlkönig.
(d) Faust.

3. What is the main task of epic theatre?
(a) To emote.
(b) To mask.
(c) To report.
(d) To exaggerate.

4. Which cartoonist contributed drawings for Schweik?
(a) David Füleki.
(b) Otto Nückel.
(c) Rötger Feldmann.
(d) Geor Grosz.

5. Brecht says actors should act for an audience of _____.
(a) The scientific age.
(b) One.
(c) The classical era.
(d) Diplomats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What needs to be alienated in epic theatre depends on the _____ demanded by the entire episode.

2. Life of Galileo starts with a man having his _____.

3. Epic theatre strives to achieve a character rather than a _____.

4. The actor first masters his character by mastering the _____.

5. Brecht states in "On Form and Subject Matter" that difficulties are not mastered by _____.

(see the answer key)

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