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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) Opening rehearsal.
(b) Rehearsal of details.
(c) Positioning rehearsal.
(d) Set rehearsal.

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

3. In Piscator's Threepenny Opera, the _____elements were built in.
(a) Conjugative.
(b) Coercive.
(c) Tonal.
(d) Educative.

4. What is Brecht's chosen opposite of the queen in his analogy about nobility of characters?
(a) A king.
(b) A beggar.
(c) A fishwife.
(d) A dog.

5. Life of Galileo starts with a man having his _____.
(a) Dog walked.
(b) Hair cut.
(c) Morning wash.
(d) Breakfast by himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Brecht calls realistic acting _____ acting.

2. Why was Antigone picked up for production?

3. _____temperament in epic theatre is discouraged.

4. Who jeered at Galileo in the play of the same name?

5. Who was in charge of Das Wort?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are the conventions of traditional verse and how does Brecht's poetry defy these conventions?

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

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

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

7. What is Brecht's view on costumes and masks?

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

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

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

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