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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, 1918-1932 (Augsburg, Munich, Berlin), Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The translator's notes in number 37 give a provisional account of the most important of Brecht's _____.
(a) Personal favorites.
(b) Self-criticisms.
(c) Theoretical works.
(d) Fact-finding notes.

2. Brecht states that "A theatre which makes no contact with the public is _____."
(a) Perfect.
(b) Anonymous.
(c) Nonsense.
(d) Sacred.

3. _____ are Brecht's collected plays in twelve volumes by Surhkamp and by Aufbau from 1953 and after.
(a) Achtarbeiten.
(b) Stucke.
(c) Epischen Theater.
(d) Achtwerke.

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

5. Which two essays in the book are from the Brecht Archive, which were the only ones the editor of this book allowed to reproduce?
(a) The two listed under number 97.
(b) Zunn und Arbeit.
(c) Dunkel und Deutsche,
(d) The two listed under number 32.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Die Asthetschen Anschauungen Berthold Brechts?

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

3. With whom did Brecht collaborate on the Berlin production of his first play, Baal?

4. _____ is fifteen volumes of Brecht's writings published by Kiepenheuer, Berlin.

5. Three years after Brecht's attack, the Augsberg theatre turned entirely over to _____.

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