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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 calls realistic acting _____ acting.
(a) Window pane.
(b) Keyhole.
(c) Rabbit hole.
(d) Drugstore.

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

3. Brecht states that it is not the job of the Marxist-Leninist party to organize production of poetry as on a _____.
(a) Tomato farm.
(b) Poultry farm.
(c) Ford assembly line.
(d) Factory floor.

4. When asked if Katzgraben is a play with a message, Brecht replies that _____ is a play with a message.
(a) Shakespeare's King Lear.
(b) Wolf's Cyankali.
(c) Shaw's Pygmalion.
(d) Goethe's Faust.

5. Temporary structures were built in Germany after the war and the danger, in Brecht's eyes, was that they would _____.
(a) Change.
(b) Fall on someone.
(c) Remain.
(d) Evolve.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A masterly use of _____ can be seen in Chinese acting.

3. Length of scene was settled during _____.

4. How does Brecht characterize the bourgeois theatre that conjures up illusions about life?

5. Boiling the story down to a half sheet of paper took place during _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Brueghel deal in contradictions?

5. What is Brecht's view on previews?

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

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

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

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

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

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