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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Life of Galileo has the main character giving a boy a lesson on _____.
(a) The Bible.
(b) The solar system.
(c) Didactics.
(d) Color theory.

2. In Neher's Antigone, what sits on four posts as part of the setting?
(a) Pots.
(b) Horse skulls.
(c) Human skulls.
(d) Rocks.

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

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

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

6. How is the dialogue divided in Der Messingkauf?
(a) Into three years.
(b) Into seventeen stanzas.
(c) Into four nights.
(d) Into sixty chapters.

7. Why was Antigone picked up for production?
(a) Its characterization.
(b) Its sense of drama.
(c) Its timely subject matter.
(d) Its sets.

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

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

10. Always standing parallel to the _____ is one of Brechts 'common tendencies for actors to guard against'.
(a) Audience.
(b) Footlights.
(c) Sidewalls.
(d) Projectors.

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

12. Speech of outstanding _____ is discouraged in epic theatre.
(a) Charisma.
(b) Volume.
(c) Clarity.
(d) Pace.

13. Piscator's theater was characterized as the most _____ theatre.
(a) Calculating.
(b) Ordinary.
(c) Demanding.
(d) Radical.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The actor first masters his character by mastering the _____.

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

3. Where in Laughton's house did he and Brecht work in the morning?

4. Brecht calls realistic acting _____ acting.

5. Brecht believed that one need never be frightened of putting bold and unaccustomed things before the _____.

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