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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Brecht describe the setting of the Threepenny Opera?
(a) As unreal.
(b) As intricate.
(c) As simple.
(d) As realistic.

4. Brecht believed that the social realism in Germany must also be _____ realism.
(a) Extraordinary.
(b) Critical.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Divine.

5. Piscator's theater was characterized as the most _____ theatre.
(a) Demanding.
(b) Ordinary.
(c) Calculating.
(d) Radical.

6. Brecht categorizes the ruling classes in Hamlet as _____.
(a) Benevolent.
(b) Criminal.
(c) Drug-riddled.
(d) Hard-working.

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

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

9. Literary works cannot be taken over like _____.
(a) Factories.
(b) Roads.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Countries.

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

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

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

13. 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) Remain.
(c) Evolve.
(d) Change.

14. Art, to Brecht, addresses all alike and would confront the tiger its _____.
(a) Roar.
(b) Dance.
(c) Song.
(d) Claws.

15. What needs to be alienated in epic theatre depends on the _____ demanded by the entire episode.
(a) Character position.
(b) Composition.
(c) Prop position.
(d) Exposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. When asked if Katzgraben is a play with a message, Brecht replies that _____ is a play with a message.

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

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

4. _____ means intelligible to the broad masses.

5. The actor masters his character by paying critical attention to its _____.

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