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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Where did the first production of Galileo take place?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Paris.

10. Brecht admits that his insistence on avoiding self-identification with a character is a _____ concept.
(a) Dogmatic.
(b) Antiquated.
(c) Contrived.
(d) Stolen.

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

12. 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.

13. When asked if Katzgraben is a play with a message, Brecht replies that _____ is a play with a message.
(a) Shaw's Pygmalion.
(b) Wolf's Cyankali.
(c) Shakespeare's King Lear.
(d) Goethe's Faust.

14. _____temperament in epic theatre is discouraged.
(a) Docile.
(b) Obtrusive.
(c) Indulgent.
(d) Angry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Subordinating one's own _____to what one imagines those intentions to be is one of Brechts 'common tendencies for actors to guard against'.

2. What signified a broad flow of popular musical elements into modern music?

3. The historical conditions of a play must not be imagined as _____.

4. Why was Antigone picked up for production?

5. An artist from _____ made sketches for Laughton of Galileo.

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