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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. What is the name of the Mother in Die Mutter?
(a) Misha.
(b) Helge.
(c) Vlassova.
(d) Elena.

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

3. _____ means intelligible to the broad masses.
(a) Fatalism.
(b) Popular.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Marxism.

4. In Piscator's Threepenny Opera, the _____elements were built in.
(a) Coercive.
(b) Tonal.
(c) Conjugative.
(d) Educative.

5. Literary works cannot be taken over like _____.
(a) Factories.
(b) Roads.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Countries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main task of epic theatre?

2. What nationality of horsemen are depicted in Christ Carrying the Cross?

3. Which cartoonist contributed drawings for Schweik?

4. How does Brecht characterize the bourgeois theatre that conjures up illusions about life?

5. Who wrote Die Asthetschen Anschauungen Berthold Brechts?

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