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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Brecht states in "On Form and Subject Matter" that difficulties are not mastered by _____.
(a) Keeping silent about them.
(b) Practice alone.
(c) Denying them.
(d) Throwing oneself against a brick wall.

2. In one of Brecht's examples of how projections were used, projections of warships being launched were running while two characters were fighting over _____.
(a) An Albanian oil field.
(b) A penny.
(c) A woman.
(d) A Rhineland winery.

3. Brecht felt that for at least two generations, European drama had been passing though a period of _____.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Marxism.
(d) Experiment.

4. What is the name of the book that contains Walter Nubel Brecht's bibliography that lists Berthold Brecht's works?
(a) Bloch und Fahber.
(b) Sinn und Form.
(c) Zinn und Arbeit.
(d) Zwei und Zwanzig Arbeiten.

5. A mass of _____ to develop the character are carried out when it is introduced among other characters of the play.
(a) Interpretations.
(b) Operations.
(c) Digressions.
(d) Assumptions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Elisabeth Begner and Rudolf Forster starred in Shaw's _____ in 1924.

3. In terms of aesthetics, Galileo spoke of the elegance of certain _____.

4. What is the name of the Mother in Die Mutter?

5. Which aspect of epic theatre enlightened the spectator about facts unknown to him?

(see the answer key)

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