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

2. Major form is designed to realize material for _____, according to Brecht.
(a) Eternity.
(b) The times.
(c) The masses.
(d) The short run.

3. Like Tolstoy and Strindberg, Brecht says that Wedekind was one of the greatest _____ of modern Europe.
(a) Performers.
(b) Administrators.
(c) Educators.
(d) Millionaires.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Theatre became an affair for _____ in light of the changes made by the ideals of epic theatre.

4. From the pseudo-classical German point of view, the first prison scene in the Threepenny Opera is a/an _____.

5. Brecht's first book of poems contained songs and _____.

(see the answer key)

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