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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1947-1948 (Zurich).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nationality of horsemen are depicted in Christ Carrying the Cross?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Turkish.
(c) Moorish.
(d) Flemish.

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

3. What did Brecht win in 1922 for Trommeln in der Nacht?
(a) The Nobel Prize.
(b) The Kleist Prize.
(c) A Tony Award.
(d) An Oscar.

4. In "Shouldn't We Abolish Aesthetics?", Brecht hopes that _____ would be the death of their existing drama.
(a) A lack of government funding.
(b) The war.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Capitalism.

5. Brecht believed that one need never be frightened of putting bold and unaccustomed things before the _____.
(a) King.
(b) Intelligentsia.
(c) Bourgeois.
(d) Proletariat.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Theaterarbeit published?

2. Brecht states that opera cannot be wished away and its _____ have an important social function.

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

4. _____ is two volumes of collected plays published by Malik Verlag, London.

5. Brecht states that knowledge is just _____.

(see the answer key)

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