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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1948-1956 (Berlin), Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Three years after Brecht's attack, the Augsberg theatre turned entirely over to _____.
(a) Magicians.
(b) Opera.
(c) The symphony.
(d) The govenrment.

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

3. Laughton gave readings of _____ at Brecht's house.
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Stanislavski.
(d) Goelik.

4. The expressionism of the postwar period showed the World as Will and Idea and led to a special kind of _____.
(a) Solopsism.
(b) Regression.
(c) Monopolism.
(d) Caricature.

5. Brecht believed that one need never be frightened of putting bold and unaccustomed things before the _____.
(a) King.
(b) Proletariat.
(c) Intelligentsia.
(d) Bourgeois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Length of scene was settled during _____.

2. Why was Antigone picked up for production?

3. What is Brecht's chosen opposite of the queen in his analogy about nobility of characters?

4. Getting louder when increasing_____ is one of Brechts 'common tendencies for actors to guard against'.

5. What does Brecht call the new style of acting that happened as a result of the Threepenny Opera?

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