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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1918-1932 (Augsburg, Munich, Berlin), Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Brecht's _____ on theater are not included in this book.
(a) Students' essays.
(b) Poems.
(c) Notes.
(d) Programming.

2. What is the Marxist phrase for the whole body of art, ideas, and morality of any given society?
(a) Cohesive collective thought.
(b) Ideological superstructure.
(c) Social inherent tendencies.
(d) Brain circus.

3. 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) Dunkel und Deutsche,
(b) Zunn und Arbeit.
(c) The two listed under number 32.
(d) The two listed under number 97.

4. _____ are Brecht's collected poems.
(a) Gedichte.
(b) Theaterarbeit.
(c) Die Mutter.
(d) Mittenzwei.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the main task of epic theatre?

3. In "Shouldn't We Abolish Aesthetics?", Brecht hopes that _____ would be the death of their existing drama.

4. What does Brecht call people who came to the theatre to get their cockles warmed in "Conversations with Bert Brecht"?

5. Brecht states that concern with subject and concern with form are _____.

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