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

2. What is Creon's laurel wreath made of in Neher's Antigone?
(a) Wool.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Copper.
(d) Cotton.

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

4. After the moral and material collapse of Germany, the country had a vague appetite for _____.
(a) Classicism.
(b) Aleatoric elements.
(c) Drama.
(d) Novelty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Laughton gave readings of _____ at Brecht's house.

2. How does Brecht characterize the bourgeois theatre that conjures up illusions about life?

3. Where is the Schiffbauerdamm theatre located?

4. The pomp of _____ has a hollow gest.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Brecht's view on run-throughs?

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

3. What is Brecht's description of how academic critics treat folk plays and why does he think this?

4. How was performance kept subordinate to the story in Antigone?

5. What does theatre show us about the structure of society and how is this represented?

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

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

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

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