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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The sight of the _____behind a completely empty stage creates the illusion of a flat landscape with a huge sky.
(a) Films.
(b) Projetions.
(c) Cyclorama.
(d) Diorama.

3. In Piscator's Threepenny Opera, the _____elements were built in.
(a) Tonal.
(b) Conjugative.
(c) Educative.
(d) Coercive.

4. How does Brecht characterize the bourgeois theatre that conjures up illusions about life?
(a) Brilliantine.
(b) Relentless.
(c) Parasitic.
(d) Byzantine.

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

6. What nationality of horsemen are depicted in Christ Carrying the Cross?
(a) Moorish.
(b) Turkish.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Flemish.

7. The American stage was said by Brecht to shun _____.
(a) Emotionalizing.
(b) Speeches.
(c) Music.
(d) Acting.

8. Where in Laughton's house did he and Brecht work in the morning?
(a) The library.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The living room.
(d) The dining room.

9. When did Brecht address the all-German cultural congress?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1945.

10. A mass of _____ to develop the character are carried out when it is introduced among other characters of the play.
(a) Interpretations.
(b) Digressions.
(c) Assumptions.
(d) Operations.

11. Temporary structures were built in Germany after the war and the danger, in Brecht's eyes, was that they would _____.
(a) Fall on someone.
(b) Change.
(c) Evolve.
(d) Remain.

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

13. Who spoke in 1826 of the inadequacy of the English wooden stage of Shakespeare's day?
(a) Pound.
(b) Kessler.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Shelley.

14. What is Creon's laurel wreath made of in Neher's Antigone?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Copper.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Wool.

15. All through Theaterarbeith, the emphasis is strongly _____.
(a) Emotional.
(b) Technical.
(c) Practical.
(d) Socialist.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the moral and material collapse of Germany, the country had a vague appetite for _____.

2. Where did Helene Weigel give acting lessons at theatre school, possibly using Brecht's list of exercises?

3. Where was Das Wort published?

4. Brecht sees his epoch as having a _____ enjoyment of theatre than the ancients had.

5. In Neher's Antigone, what sits on four posts as part of the setting?

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