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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1948-1956 (Berlin), Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Brecht calls realistic acting _____ acting.
(a) Window pane.
(b) Keyhole.
(c) Rabbit hole.
(d) Drugstore.

2. The translator's notes in number 37 give a provisional account of the most important of Brecht's _____.
(a) Fact-finding notes.
(b) Personal favorites.
(c) Theoretical works.
(d) Self-criticisms.

3. What does Brecht call people who came to the theatre to get their cockles warmed in "Conversations with Bert Brecht"?
(a) Vegetation.
(b) Scum.
(c) Pot ash.
(d) Nobility.

4. The expressionism of the postwar period showed the World as Will and Idea and led to a special kind of _____.
(a) Regression.
(b) Solopsism.
(c) Caricature.
(d) Monopolism.

5. _____ is fifteen volumes of Brecht's writings published by Kiepenheuer, Berlin.
(a) Kontakt.
(b) Versuche.
(c) Verstehen.
(d) Arbeiten.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the best-known composer that Brecht worked with?

2. _____ essays in magazines have also been used for reference in this book.

3. How does Brecht categorize opera?

4. Which work by Goethe was better as a book than a theatrical production, according to Brecht?

5. _____temperament in epic theatre is discouraged.

(see the answer key)

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