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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1948-1956 (Berlin), Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The actor first masters his character by mastering the _____.
(a) Story.
(b) Gest.
(c) Stage.
(d) Lines.

2. Piscator's Theater am Nollendorfplatz was based on _____ principles.
(a) Communist.
(b) Capitalist.
(c) Aristotelian.
(d) Marxist.

3. From the pseudo-classical German point of view, the first prison scene in the Threepenny Opera is a/an _____.
(a) Establishing scene.
(b) Major event.
(c) Plot point.
(d) Diversion.

4. What did actors sit on in Neher's Antigone?
(a) Benches.
(b) Thrones.
(c) The floor.
(d) Director's chairs.

5. Brecht states that opera cannot be wished away and its _____ have an important social function.
(a) Illusions.
(b) Morals.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Truths.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Brecht characterize the bourgeois theatre that conjures up illusions about life?

2. The expressionism of the postwar period showed the World as Will and Idea and led to a special kind of _____.

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

4. Where in Laughton's house did he and Brecht work in the morning?

5. Like Tolstoy and Strindberg, Brecht says that Wedekind was one of the greatest _____ of modern Europe.

(see the answer key)

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