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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1933-1947 (Exile: Scandinavia, USA), Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word 'Spass' mean in German?
(a) Fun.
(b) Classical.
(c) Free.
(d) Long.

2. Where did Brecht give an explanation of Ber Flug der Lindberghs in 1929?
(a) The Kleist Prize ceremony.
(b) The Hague.
(c) In London.
(d) The Baden-Baden music festival.

3. What does Brecht say was a characteristic of actors in theatre of his time?
(a) They were gods.
(b) They were war mongers.
(c) They were money-driven.
(d) They were panic-driven.

4. What does Brecht praise Georg Kaiser for?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Emotionalism.
(d) Intellectualism.

5. Film projections became an integral part of the _____ in epic theatre.
(a) Setting.
(b) Coercion.
(c) Plot.
(d) Propaganda.

Short Answer Questions

1. The goal of epic theatre is less to moralize than to _____.

2. Which work by Goethe was better as a book than a theatrical production, according to Brecht?

3. Brecht states that a film's needing human interest is equivalent to saying that it has got to be _____.

4. Who wrote the Beggar's Opera?

5. Die Mutter is based on whose novel, Mother?

(see the answer key)

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