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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. The attitude of chasing away a fly is _____.
(a) No social gest.
(b) Barbaric.
(c) Futile.
(d) Social gest.

2. Who starred in City Lights?
(a) John Huston.
(b) Errol Flynn.
(c) Charlie Chaplin.
(d) Peter Lorre.

3. What does Brecht call people who came to the theatre to get their cockles warmed in "Conversations with Bert Brecht"?
(a) Vegetation.
(b) Pot ash.
(c) Nobility.
(d) Scum.

4. What is the main task of epic theatre?
(a) To mask.
(b) To exaggerate.
(c) To emote.
(d) To report.

5. Who was the best-known composer that Brecht worked with?
(a) Prokofiev.
(b) Berg.
(c) Casterede.
(d) Hindemith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Brecht describes the Aristotelian play as essentially _____.

2. Brecht states that "A theatre which makes no contact with the public is _____."

3. Brecht states that concern with subject and concern with form are _____.

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

5. _____ is a lament to man's failure to understand the laws governing his life in society.

(see the answer key)

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