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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Troubled Conscience of Victor Gollancz.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Brecht's wife?
(a) Kathe Rulicke.
(b) Helene Weigel.
(c) Isot Kilian.
(d) Ruth Berlau.

2. Which of the following is not a play penned by Ibsen?
(a) The Warrior's Barrow.
(b) The Priest.
(c) St. John's Night.
(d) Lady Ingar of Ostraat.

3. What was the name of Gollancz'a wife?
(a) Sybil.
(b) Esther.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Hilary.

4. What did Brecht request to have done with his remains upon his death?
(a) He wanted to be buried at sea.
(b) He wanted to be cremated.
(c) He wanted to be buried in a steel coffin.
(d) He wanted to be interred in an above ground marble masoleum.

5. Which political party did Bertolt Brecht faithfully serve?
(a) The Nationalist Party.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) The Nazi Party.
(d) The Eastern Democratic Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What honor did Gollancz receive in 1945?

2. What is the name of the person, whom Ibsen based his character of Nora from A Doll's House on?

3. What is the name of Ibsen's acknowledged son?

4. What opera had Gollancz seen forty-seven times before the age of twenty-one?

5. What subject did Gollancz teach at Repton?

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