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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An artist from _____ made sketches for Laughton of Galileo.
(a) Disney.
(b) Hannah Barbera.
(c) The Sorbonne.
(d) The Royal Academie of Arts.

2. _____temperament in epic theatre is discouraged.
(a) Indulgent.
(b) Docile.
(c) Angry.
(d) Obtrusive.

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

4. What is Brecht's chosen opposite of the queen in his analogy about nobility of characters?
(a) A fishwife.
(b) A beggar.
(c) A king.
(d) A dog.

5. The historical conditions of a play must not be imagined as _____.
(a) Destitute.
(b) Having passed.
(c) Contrary to modern times.
(d) Mysterious powers.

6. Where was Das Wort published?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

7. Brecht believed that an artist who is merely _____ could not get the most out of his talents.
(a) Progressive.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Epic.
(d) Good-looking.

8. The rapid decline of artistic methods under the Nazis seemed to Brecht to have take place _____.
(a) In Berlin only.
(b) Unnoticed.
(c) Under scrutiny.
(d) As a result of bombings.

9. Where did Brecht address the all-German cultural congress?
(a) Frankfurt.
(b) Cornwall.
(c) Leipzig.
(d) Bohn.

10. Who wrote the music for Mother Courage?
(a) Hindemith.
(b) Dessau.
(c) Weill.
(d) Glucke.

11. Brecht states that art is no Land of _____.
(a) Cockaigne.
(b) The Lost.
(c) Milk and Honey.
(d) Love.

12. Life of Galileo starts with a man having his _____.
(a) Dog walked.
(b) Hair cut.
(c) Breakfast by himself.
(d) Morning wash.

13. What color are the canvases in Neher's Antigone?
(a) Sage.
(b) Flax.
(c) Ocean blue.
(d) Ox blood.

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

15. In Neher's Antigone, what sits on four posts as part of the setting?
(a) Human skulls.
(b) Horse skulls.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Pots.

Short Answer Questions

1. Brecht states that it is not the job of the Marxist-Leninist party to organize production of poetry as on a _____.

2. The stylization by which an actor's performance becomes art must not destroy _____ in the process.

3. What did actors sit on in Neher's Antigone?

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

5. Subordinating one's own _____to what one imagines those intentions to be is one of Brechts 'common tendencies for actors to guard against'.

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