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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The criteria of the popular and the realistic need to be chosen with great care and _____.
(a) No expectation.
(b) High expectations.
(c) An open mind.
(d) A big wallet.

3. The poet's words in epic theatre are only sacred so far as they are _____.
(a) Pious.
(b) True.
(c) Loud.
(d) Defined.

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

5. How does Brecht describe the confusion of styles present in European theatre in his time?
(a) As sophisticated.
(b) As Epic.
(c) As Babylonian.
(d) As harmless.

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

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

8. The actor masters his character by paying critical attention to its _____.
(a) Mannerisms.
(b) Manifold utterances.
(c) Dialectic inflections.
(d) Patterns of speech.

9. Boiling the story down to a half sheet of paper took place during _____.
(a) Checking rehearsals.
(b) Analysis of the play.
(c) Music rehearsals.
(d) Set rehearsal.

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

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

12. In Life of Galileo, Richard Gloster courts _____.
(a) His victim's widow.
(b) His teacher.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His sister's best friend.

13. 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.

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

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

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

3. Brecht believed that an artist who is merely _____ could not get the most out of his talents.

4. _____ with a character should be treated as just another method of observation in rehearsals.

5. Epic theatre strives to achieve a character rather than a _____.

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