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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Brueghel's great war painting called?
(a) The Archangel Michael.
(b) Dulle Griet.
(c) The Fall of Icarus.
(d) The Conversion of Saul.

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

4. For the prologue in Neher's Antigone, a _____ is lowered on wires.
(a) Roman column.
(b) White wall.
(c) Lost woman.
(d) White horse.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Brecht felt that for at least two generations, European drama had been passing though a period of _____.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Experiment.
(c) Marxism.
(d) Classicism.

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

12. A masterly use of _____ can be seen in Chinese acting.
(a) Ridicule.
(b) Gesture.
(c) Costumes.
(d) Marxism.

13. _____ is a lament to man's failure to understand the laws governing his life in society.
(a) Mahagonny.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Die Mutter.
(d) The Threepenny Opera.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spoke in 1826 of the inadequacy of the English wooden stage of Shakespeare's day?

2. How does Brecht characterize the bourgeois theatre that conjures up illusions about life?

3. Where had Mother Courage first been produced?

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

5. Brecht believed that one need never be frightened of putting bold and unaccustomed things before the _____.

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