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

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

3. A masterly use of _____ can be seen in Chinese acting.
(a) Marxism.
(b) Gesture.
(c) Costumes.
(d) Ridicule.

4. How does Brecht describe the confusion of styles present in European theatre in his time?
(a) As Epic.
(b) As sophisticated.
(c) As Babylonian.
(d) As harmless.

5. Brecht thought that the bourgeois theatre's performances always aimed to create _____.
(a) Glorified sanity.
(b) Tattered illusion.
(c) Gross negligence.
(d) False harmony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Brecht address the all-German cultural congress?

2. Where did the first production of Galileo take place?

3. Life of Galileo has the main character giving a boy a lesson on _____.

4. What is Creon's laurel wreath made of in Neher's Antigone?

5. In Life of Galileo, the child's true mother is found by means of a _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Brecht see as the reasons for lifeless and stereotyped portrayals of characters by actors?

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

3. What is Brecht's view on costumes and masks?

4. What role does observation play in acting?

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

6. In what works did Brecht give up iambics and why?

7. Why did the actors sit openly on the stage in Neher's production of Antigone?

8. How does Brueghel deal in contradictions?

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

10. What convention of ordinary theatre does Brecht say should be left out of his 'street scene' and why?

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