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

2. Brecht's first book of poems contained songs and _____.
(a) Sonnets.
(b) Haiku.
(c) Limericks.
(d) Ballads.

3. Where had Mother Courage first been produced?
(a) New York.
(b) Dresden.
(c) Munich.
(d) Zurich.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Brecht sees his epoch as having a _____ enjoyment of theatre than the ancients had.

2. What were the colors used to develop the color scheme for morning in Galileo?

3. God had a bet with the devil for _____.

4. Length of scene was settled during _____.

5. _____ means intelligible to the broad masses.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is Brecht's view on previews?

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