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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. A masterly use of _____ can be seen in Chinese acting.
(a) Costumes.
(b) Ridicule.
(c) Marxism.
(d) Gesture.
2. The stylization by which an actor's performance becomes art must not destroy _____ in the process.
(a) Bleakness.
(b) Naturalness.
(c) The plot.
(d) The setting.
3. Where did the first production of Galileo take place?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Paris.
(d) Frankfurt.
4. The attitude of chasing away a fly is _____.
(a) Barbaric.
(b) No social gest.
(c) Futile.
(d) Social gest.
5. _____ means intelligible to the broad masses.
(a) Marxism.
(b) Propaganda.
(c) Popular.
(d) Fatalism.
Short Answer Questions
1. Woyzeck buys a _____ in order to do his wife in.
2. Temporary structures were built in Germany after the war and the danger, in Brecht's eyes, was that they would _____.
3. The rapid decline of artistic methods under the Nazis seemed to Brecht to have take place _____.
4. An artist from _____ made sketches for Laughton of Galileo.
5. The main episodes were roughly and provisionally translated into movements during the _____.
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Brecht's view on rehearsal of details?
2. What does Brecht see as a good way of judging gestic music with a piece of text?
3. What does Brecht say is considered to be social gest?
4. With whom did Brecht and Laughton fill the cast of Galileo and what did they have trouble with?
5. How does Brecht say that the new sciences affect humanity?
6. How does Brecht describe his cities after the great war in "From the Mother Courage Model"?
7. What is Brecht's view on previews?
8. What does theatre show us about the structure of society and how is this represented?
9. In what works did Brecht give up iambics and why?
10. How is a theatre's cultural standard decided and what is the fear that arises?
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