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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 fifteen volumes of Brecht's writings published by Kiepenheuer, Berlin.
(a) Verstehen.
(b) Kontakt.
(c) Versuche.
(d) Arbeiten.

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

3. Woyzeck buys a _____ in order to do his wife in.
(a) Pick axe.
(b) Rifle.
(c) Pistol.
(d) Cheap knife.

4. The pomp of _____ has a hollow gest.
(a) Stalinists.
(b) Fascists.
(c) Leninists.
(d) Conformists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the first production of Galileo take place?

2. Elisabeth Begner and Rudolf Forster starred in Shaw's _____ in 1924.

3. Lehrstucke are Brecht's _____ works.

4. An artist from _____ made sketches for Laughton of Galileo.

5. Where did Piscator go 'gloomily' off to to make films after he staged Section 218?

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