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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. How did Brecht characterize Shaw's work in "A Catching Infection: Fun"?
(a) As addictively engrossing.
(b) As tediously pedantic.
(c) As extraordinarily healthy.
(d) As ego-driven.

2. _____ means intelligible to the broad masses.
(a) Popular.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Fatalism.

3. Where dramatic theatre emphasizes plot, epic theatre emphasizes _____.
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Consequence.
(c) Narrative.
(d) Setting.

4. Piscator's theater was characterized as the most _____ theatre.
(a) Demanding.
(b) Radical.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Calculating.

5. Brecht describes the Aristotelian play as essentially _____.
(a) Static.
(b) Pedantic.
(c) Dynamic.
(d) Didactic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Die Mutter is based on whose novel, Mother?

2. Who was Brecht's longtime secretary and collaborator?

3. 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.

4. Where did Helene Weigel give acting lessons at theatre school, possibly using Brecht's list of exercises?

5. Like Tolstoy and Strindberg, Brecht says that Wedekind was one of the greatest _____ of modern Europe.

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