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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1933-1947 (Exile: Scandinavia, USA), Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When asked who Brecht wrote for in "Conversations with Bert Brecht", he said that he wrote for people who wanted to have fun and didn't hesitate to keep their _____ on in the theatre.
(a) Glasses.
(b) Coats.
(c) Hats.
(d) Boots.

2. Who wrote the play, Konjunktur?
(a) Jessner.
(b) Bronnen.
(c) Kortner.
(d) Lania.

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

4. In "Shouldn't We Abolish Aesthetics?", Brecht hopes that _____ would be the death of their existing drama.
(a) The war.
(b) A lack of government funding.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Capitalism.

5. Brecht felt that for at least two generations, European drama had been passing though a period of _____.
(a) Experiment.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Marxism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What signified a broad flow of popular musical elements into modern music?

2. What sort of approach does Brecht say the opera Mahagonny adopts?

3. Brecht describes the Aristotelian play as essentially _____.

4. Who does Brecht mention in association with London theatre when he talks about the theatre centers of the world?

5. What did Brecht win in 1922 for Trommeln in der Nacht?

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