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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1933-1947 (Exile: Scandinavia, USA), Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _____ is two volumes of collected plays published by Malik Verlag, London.
(a) Gesammelte Werke.
(b) Sonatas.
(c) Theaterarbeit.
(d) Schriffen zum Theater.

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

3. Where was Das Wort published?
(a) London.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Paris.

4. Brecht states that radical transformation of theatre can't be the result of some _____.
(a) Second thought.
(b) Artistic whim.
(c) Recommendation.
(d) Intuition.

5. Die Mutter is based on whose novel, Mother?
(a) Chaplin.
(b) Penderecki.
(c) Gorki.
(d) Goedel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Brecht felt that in the great American comedies, the human being is presented as _____.

2. The criteria of the popular and the realistic need to be chosen with great care and _____.

3. Where dramatic theatre emphasizes plot, epic theatre emphasizes _____.

4. Who wrote the Beggar's Opera?

5. What sort of approach does Brecht say the opera Mahagonny adopts?

(see the answer key)

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