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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. Brecht says actors should act for an audience of _____.
(a) The scientific age.
(b) The classical era.
(c) One.
(d) Diplomats.

2. Theaterarbeit is a collective volume of Brecht's work kept by _____.
(a) His mother.
(b) George Bernard Shaw.
(c) His granddaughter.
(d) The Berliner Ensemble.

3. Which work by Goethe was better as a book than a theatrical production, according to Brecht?
(a) Faust.
(b) Der Zauberlehrling.
(c) Der Erlkönig.
(d) Iphigenie auf Tauris.

4. When was Theaterarbeit published?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1945.

5. Brecht states that concern with subject and concern with form are _____.
(a) Complementary.
(b) Contradictory.
(c) Mutually exclusive.
(d) Counter-productive.

Short Answer Questions

1. _____ are Brecht's collected plays in twelve volumes by Surhkamp and by Aufbau from 1953 and after.

2. Who does Brecht mention in association with Paris theatre when he talks about the theatre centers of the world?

3. Piscator's Theater am Nollendorfplatz was based on _____ principles.

4. The translator's notes in number 37 give a provisional account of the most important of Brecht's _____.

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

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