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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. What does Brecht call people who came to the theatre to get their cockles warmed in "Conversations with Bert Brecht"?
(a) Scum.
(b) Vegetation.
(c) Nobility.
(d) Pot ash.

2. Major form is designed to realize material for _____, according to Brecht.
(a) The short run.
(b) The times.
(c) The masses.
(d) Eternity.

3. Lehrstucke are Brecht's _____ works.
(a) Culinary.
(b) Historical.
(c) Didactic.
(d) Holistic.

4. How did Brecht characterize Shaw's work in "A Catching Infection: Fun"?
(a) As ego-driven.
(b) As tediously pedantic.
(c) As addictively engrossing.
(d) As extraordinarily healthy.

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

Short Answer 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 _____.

2. Brecht states that knowledge is just _____.

3. Brecht states that concern with subject and concern with form are _____.

4. Like Tolstoy and Strindberg, Brecht says that Wedekind was one of the greatest _____ of modern Europe.

5. _____ essays in magazines have also been used for reference in this book.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How were theatrical productions in Russia, America and Germany similar to each other in Brecht's time.

3. What innovations happened as a result of writing the book?

4. What has the translation tried to convey?

5. What advantages did Brecht feel the theatre had in Germany before he went into exile?

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

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

8. How was Piscator's influence obvious to Brecht in theatre in 1929?

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

10. What was the function of the big canvas at the back of the stage in the production of Die Mutter?

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