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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Epic theatre strives to achieve a character rather than a _____.
(a) Singer.
(b) Dilettant.
(c) Corporal.
(d) Caricature.

3. What is Brecht's chosen opposite of the queen in his analogy about nobility of characters?
(a) A king.
(b) A beggar.
(c) A fishwife.
(d) A dog.

4. Aiming to avoid artificial heat in the production of Katzgraben, Brecht felt the company fell short on _____.
(a) Natural warmth.
(b) Soft solitude.
(c) Cunning.
(d) Wit.

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

6. The Berliner Ensemble didn't believe in cutting new actors off from _____.
(a) Bourgeois values.
(b) Marxist propaganda.
(c) Print media.
(d) Real life.

7. What does Der Messingkauf mean in German?
(a) Twinkle Star.
(b) The Messy House.
(c) Taking Chance.
(d) Buying Brass.

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

9. Who was in charge of Das Wort?
(a) Bredel.
(b) Neher.
(c) Scher.
(d) Brecht.

10. Where had Mother Courage first been produced?
(a) Zurich.
(b) Munich.
(c) New York.
(d) Dresden.

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

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

13. What color are the canvases in Neher's Antigone?
(a) Ox blood.
(b) Flax.
(c) Sage.
(d) Ocean blue.

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

15. God had a bet with the devil for _____.
(a) A pot of gold.
(b) The rights to heaven.
(c) A penny.
(d) Dr. Faustus's soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Brecht address the all-German cultural congress?

2. The stylization by which an actor's performance becomes art must not destroy _____ in the process.

3. Brecht states that it is not the job of the Marxist-Leninist party to organize production of poetry as on a _____.

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

5. Brecht calls realistic acting _____ acting.

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