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

2. Brecht states that the farmer was not aware throughout the centuries of his need for _____.
(a) Marxism.
(b) Irrigation.
(c) The car.
(d) Cows.

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

4. The actor masters his character by paying critical attention to its _____.
(a) Patterns of speech.
(b) Mannerisms.
(c) Dialectic inflections.
(d) Manifold utterances.

5. The main episodes were roughly and provisionally translated into movements during the _____.
(a) Set rehearsal.
(b) Positioning rehearsal.
(c) Rehearsal of details.
(d) Opening rehearsal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who puts himself at the Philosopher's disposal in Der Messingkauf?

2. Who was Brecht's longtime secretary and collaborator?

3. Where did the first production of Galileo take place?

4. Brecht thought that the bourgeois theatre's performances always aimed to create _____.

5. Where was The Road to Life made?

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