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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who jeered at Galileo in the play of the same name?
(a) His siblings.
(b) His rivals.
(c) The monks of the Collegium Romanum.
(d) The nuns of Gloucester.

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

6. 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.

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

8. _____ means intelligible to the broad masses.
(a) Fatalism.
(b) Propaganda.
(c) Marxism.
(d) Popular.

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

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

11. Where in Laughton's house did he and Brecht work in the morning?
(a) The library.
(b) The dining room.
(c) The living room.
(d) The kitchen.

12. What signified a broad flow of popular musical elements into modern music?
(a) New Age.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Avant-garde.
(d) Blues.

13. What were the colors used to develop the color scheme for morning in Galileo?
(a) Orange, lilac, and sage.
(b) Green, blue, and pink.
(c) Pumpkin, olive, and caramel.
(d) White, yellow, and gray.

14. Temporary structures were built in Germany after the war and the danger, in Brecht's eyes, was that they would _____.
(a) Change.
(b) Fall on someone.
(c) Remain.
(d) Evolve.

15. What did actors sit on in Neher's Antigone?
(a) Director's chairs.
(b) Thrones.
(c) Benches.
(d) The floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the production of Galileo go in December, 1947?

2. The poet's words in epic theatre are only sacred so far as they are _____.

3. How is the dialogue divided in Der Messingkauf?

4. In Life of Galileo, Richard Gloster courts _____.

5. The criteria of the popular and the realistic need to be chosen with great care and _____.

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