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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 states that the farmer was not aware throughout the centuries of his need for _____.
(a) Cows.
(b) Marxism.
(c) The car.
(d) Irrigation.

2. The sight of the _____behind a completely empty stage creates the illusion of a flat landscape with a huge sky.
(a) Projetions.
(b) Films.
(c) Cyclorama.
(d) Diorama.

3. The stylization by which an actor's performance becomes art must not destroy _____ in the process.
(a) The plot.
(b) Bleakness.
(c) Naturalness.
(d) The setting.

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

5. Brecht categorizes the ruling classes in Hamlet as _____.
(a) Criminal.
(b) Hard-working.
(c) Benevolent.
(d) Drug-riddled.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who spoke in 1826 of the inadequacy of the English wooden stage of Shakespeare's day?

3. _____ means intelligible to the broad masses.

4. The Berliner Ensemble didn't believe in cutting new actors off from _____.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Brecht complain about the use of Volkstumlich in the German language?

2. What does Brecht see as a good way of judging gestic music with a piece of text?

3. What is Brecht's view on rehearsal of details?

4. What role does observation play in acting?

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

6. What did the ancients following Aristotle demand of tragedy?

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

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

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

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

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