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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Antigone picked up for production?
(a) Its sense of drama.
(b) Its sets.
(c) Its characterization.
(d) Its timely subject matter.

2. The pomp of _____ has a hollow gest.
(a) Conformists.
(b) Fascists.
(c) Stalinists.
(d) Leninists.

3. The stylization by which an actor's performance becomes art must not destroy _____ in the process.
(a) Bleakness.
(b) The plot.
(c) The setting.
(d) Naturalness.

4. How is the dialogue divided in Der Messingkauf?
(a) Into four nights.
(b) Into three years.
(c) Into seventeen stanzas.
(d) Into sixty chapters.

5. Length of scene was settled during _____.
(a) Tempo rehearsals.
(b) Dress rehearsals.
(c) Previews.
(d) Run-throughs.

6. Brecht sees his epoch as having a _____ enjoyment of theatre than the ancients had.
(a) Darker.
(b) Weaker.
(c) Healthier.
(d) Lighter.

7. Brecht states that the titles of In Life of Galileo must include the _____.
(a) Actor's names.
(b) Year of the setting.
(c) Ingredients for making soup.
(d) Social point.

8. Speech of outstanding _____ is discouraged in epic theatre.
(a) Pace.
(b) Clarity.
(c) Charisma.
(d) Volume.

9. _____ with a character should be treated as just another method of observation in rehearsals.
(a) Empathy.
(b) Drama.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Extremism.

10. Woyzeck buys a _____ in order to do his wife in.
(a) Rifle.
(b) Cheap knife.
(c) Pistol.
(d) Pick axe.

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

12. Brecht thought that the bourgeois theatre's performances always aimed to create _____.
(a) False harmony.
(b) Gross negligence.
(c) Glorified sanity.
(d) Tattered illusion.

13. The attitude of chasing away a fly is _____.
(a) Social gest.
(b) Barbaric.
(c) Futile.
(d) No social gest.

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

15. Where is the Schiffbauerdamm theatre located?
(a) Dresden.
(b) Munich.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boiling the story down to a half sheet of paper took place during _____.

2. The poet's words in epic theatre are only sacred so far as they are _____.

3. What nationality of horsemen are depicted in Christ Carrying the Cross?

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

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

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