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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nationality of horsemen are depicted in Christ Carrying the Cross?
(a) Turkish.
(b) Moorish.
(c) Flemish.
(d) Spanish.

2. Art, to Brecht, addresses all alike and would confront the tiger its _____.
(a) Dance.
(b) Claws.
(c) Roar.
(d) Song.

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

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

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

6. After the moral and material collapse of Germany, the country had a vague appetite for _____.
(a) Drama.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Novelty.
(d) Aleatoric elements.

7. Brecht calls realistic acting _____ acting.
(a) Drugstore.
(b) Rabbit hole.
(c) Keyhole.
(d) Window pane.

8. Getting louder when increasing_____ is one of Brechts 'common tendencies for actors to guard against'.
(a) Tension.
(b) Speed.
(c) Action.
(d) Intensity.

9. Where did Brecht address the all-German cultural congress?
(a) Bohn.
(b) Cornwall.
(c) Leipzig.
(d) Frankfurt.

10. Laughton gave readings of _____ at Brecht's house.
(a) Stanislavski.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Goelik.

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

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

13. 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.

14. Brecht states that the farmer was not aware throughout the centuries of his need for _____.
(a) Irrigation.
(b) Marxism.
(c) The car.
(d) Cows.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The American stage was said by Brecht to shun _____.

2. The attitude of chasing away a fly is _____.

3. What is Brecht's chosen opposite of the queen in his analogy about nobility of characters?

4. A mass of _____ to develop the character are carried out when it is introduced among other characters of the play.

5. How is the dialogue divided in Der Messingkauf?

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