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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Der Messingkauf mean in German?
(a) Twinkle Star.
(b) Buying Brass.
(c) Taking Chance.
(d) The Messy House.

2. Epic theatre strives to achieve a character rather than a _____.
(a) Singer.
(b) Dilettant.
(c) Corporal.
(d) Caricature.

3. In Life of Galileo, Richard Gloster courts _____.
(a) His sister's best friend.
(b) His victim's widow.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His teacher.

4. The expressionism of the postwar period showed the World as Will and Idea and led to a special kind of _____.
(a) Caricature.
(b) Monopolism.
(c) Solopsism.
(d) Regression.

5. The poet's words in epic theatre are only sacred so far as they are _____.
(a) Loud.
(b) True.
(c) Defined.
(d) Pious.

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

7. After the moral and material collapse of Germany, the country had a vague appetite for _____.
(a) Drama.
(b) Aleatoric elements.
(c) Novelty.
(d) Classicism.

8. A mass of _____ to develop the character are carried out when it is introduced among other characters of the play.
(a) Assumptions.
(b) Operations.
(c) Interpretations.
(d) Digressions.

9. In Neher's Antigone, what sits on four posts as part of the setting?
(a) Human skulls.
(b) Rocks.
(c) Horse skulls.
(d) Pots.

10. The pomp of _____ has a hollow gest.
(a) Conformists.
(b) Leninists.
(c) Stalinists.
(d) Fascists.

11. Brecht thought that the bourgeois theatre's performances always aimed to create _____.
(a) Tattered illusion.
(b) False harmony.
(c) Gross negligence.
(d) Glorified sanity.

12. Where did Helene Weigel give acting lessons at theatre school, possibly using Brecht's list of exercises?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Finland.
(c) Paris.
(d) Moscow.

13. Who spoke in 1826 of the inadequacy of the English wooden stage of Shakespeare's day?
(a) Pound.
(b) Kessler.
(c) Shelley.
(d) Goethe.

14. Where was Das Wort published?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Paris.
(c) Moscow.
(d) London.

15. A masterly use of _____ can be seen in Chinese acting.
(a) Ridicule.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Costumes.
(d) Gesture.

Short Answer Questions

1. In terms of aesthetics, Galileo spoke of the elegance of certain _____.

2. Getting louder when increasing_____ is one of Brechts 'common tendencies for actors to guard against'.

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

4. Where did Brecht address the all-German cultural congress?

5. What needs to be alienated in epic theatre depends on the _____ demanded by the entire episode.

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