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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. _____temperament in epic theatre is discouraged.
(a) Docile.
(b) Indulgent.
(c) Obtrusive.
(d) Angry.

2. Brecht states that art is no Land of _____.
(a) Milk and Honey.
(b) Love.
(c) The Lost.
(d) Cockaigne.

3. The poet's words in epic theatre are only sacred so far as they are _____.
(a) Loud.
(b) Defined.
(c) True.
(d) Pious.

4. A mass of _____ to develop the character are carried out when it is introduced among other characters of the play.
(a) Digressions.
(b) Operations.
(c) Assumptions.
(d) Interpretations.

5. The rapid decline of artistic methods under the Nazis seemed to Brecht to have take place _____.
(a) As a result of bombings.
(b) Unnoticed.
(c) Under scrutiny.
(d) In Berlin only.

Short Answer Questions

1. Brecht admits that his insistence on avoiding self-identification with a character is a _____ concept.

2. Epic theatre strives to achieve a character rather than a _____.

3. What signified a broad flow of popular musical elements into modern music?

4. Brecht's first book of poems contained songs and _____.

5. Brecht states that the titles of In Life of Galileo must include the _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Brecht say is considered to be social gest?

2. What is Brecht's view on previews?

3. How did Neher and Brecht agree and disagree with Aristotle in the style of presentation of Antigone?

4. How does Brecht say that the new sciences affect humanity?

5. How does Brecht describe his cities after the great war in "From the Mother Courage Model"?

6. What system of production is present in bourgeois society?

7. What is Brecht's view on setting?

8. What are the conventions of traditional verse and how does Brecht's poetry defy these conventions?

9. Compare the modern playwright's relationship with his audience with the tradesman's relationship with his customers.

10. With whom did Brecht and Laughton fill the cast of Galileo and what did they have trouble with?

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