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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. The main episodes were roughly and provisionally translated into movements during the _____.
(a) Set rehearsal.
(b) Positioning rehearsal.
(c) Rehearsal of details.
(d) Opening rehearsal.

2. Brecht believed that an artist who is merely _____ could not get the most out of his talents.
(a) Good-looking.
(b) Epic.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Progressive.

3. Boiling the story down to a half sheet of paper took place during _____.
(a) Music rehearsals.
(b) Set rehearsal.
(c) Analysis of the play.
(d) Checking rehearsals.

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

5. Laughton gave readings of _____ at Brecht's house.
(a) Goethe.
(b) Goelik.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Stanislavski.

Short Answer Questions

1. The actor first masters his character by mastering the _____.

2. Speech of outstanding _____ is discouraged in epic theatre.

3. Where was Das Wort published?

4. The historical conditions of a play must not be imagined as _____.

5. What is Brueghel's great war painting called?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Brecht say that mere catastrophe is a bad teacher?

8. What is the role of the story in theatre?

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

10. How is a theatre's cultural standard decided and what is the fear that arises?

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