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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In one of Brecht's examples of how projections were used, projections of warships being launched were running while two characters were fighting over _____.
(a) An Albanian oil field.
(b) A Rhineland winery.
(c) A woman.
(d) A penny.

2. How does Brecht categorize opera?
(a) As trashy.
(b) As culinary.
(c) As holy.
(d) As holistic.

3. _____ is fifteen volumes of Brecht's writings published by Kiepenheuer, Berlin.
(a) Kontakt.
(b) Arbeiten.
(c) Versuche.
(d) Verstehen.

4. Where dramatic theatre emphasizes plot, epic theatre emphasizes _____.
(a) Setting.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Consequence.

5. Brecht states that a film's needing human interest is equivalent to saying that it has got to be _____.
(a) Expensive.
(b) Pious.
(c) Vulgar.
(d) Successful

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Brecht collaborate on the Berlin production of his first play, Baal?

2. In reference to film, Brecht felt that the mechanization of literary production cannot be _____.

3. Which two essays in the book are from the Brecht Archive, which were the only ones the editor of this book allowed to reproduce?

4. Brecht states that knowledge is just _____.

5. In what year did Brecht die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Brecht compare his relationship with art and science?

2. What has the translation tried to convey?

3. What is the distinction between learning and amusing oneself in the theatre?

4. What did Brecht see as the role of Fate in film?

5. Why was the editor not allowed to reproduce all of Brecht's essays?

6. What is the objective of epic drama compared to pseudo-classical German drama?

7. How is the Flier's part in Der Flug der Lindberghs pedaegogical?

8. What is the relationship between a theatre and a play?

9. Why does Brecht use the example of 'leave-taking' in "A Dialogue about Acting" and what does he mean by it?

10. What songs did Brecht sing with Wedekind and what were they about?

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