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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1948-1956 (Berlin), Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _____ is a lament to man's failure to understand the laws governing his life in society.
(a) Galileo.
(b) Die Mutter.
(c) Mahagonny.
(d) The Threepenny Opera.

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

3. In reference to film, Brecht felt that the mechanization of literary production cannot be _____.
(a) Anticipated.
(b) Thrown into reverse.
(c) Thrown off a cliff.
(d) Detached.

4. _____ is a collection of Brecht's theoretical writings published by Surhkamp.
(a) Schriften zum Theater.
(b) Versuche.
(c) Stucke.
(d) Arbeitsbuch.

5. Piscator's Theater am Nollendorfplatz was based on _____ principles.
(a) Marxist.
(b) Capitalist.
(c) Aristotelian.
(d) Communist.

Short Answer Questions

1. The actor first masters his character by mastering the _____.

2. A mass of _____ to develop the character are carried out when it is introduced among other characters of the play.

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

4. What does the word 'Spass' mean in German?

5. What example does Brecht use to explain his concept of art following reality in "On Form and Subject Matter"?

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