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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. _____ is a collection of Brecht's theoretical writings published by Surhkamp.
(a) Stucke.
(b) Versuche.
(c) Schriften zum Theater.
(d) Arbeitsbuch.

3. Who was the interviewer in "Conversations with Bert Brecht"?
(a) Bernard Guillemin.
(b) Helen Weigel.
(c) Rheinhold Grimm.
(d) Samuel Bernadin.

4. Who was Brecht's longtime secretary and collaborator?
(a) Elisabeth Hauptmann.
(b) Martin Esslin.
(c) Alban Berg.
(d) Helge Hultberg.

5. _____ are Brecht's collected poems.
(a) Die Mutter.
(b) Theaterarbeit.
(c) Mittenzwei.
(d) Gedichte.

6. What does Brecht say was Wedekind's finest characteristic?
(a) His aplomb.
(b) His vitality.
(c) His cantakerous nature.
(d) His creativity.

7. From the pseudo-classical German point of view, the first prison scene in the Threepenny Opera is a/an _____.
(a) Establishing scene.
(b) Diversion.
(c) Major event.
(d) Plot point.

8. Brecht felt that in the great American comedies, the human being is presented as _____.
(a) An oracle.
(b) An object.
(c) A tyrant.
(d) An animal.

9. With whom did Brecht collaborate on the Berlin production of his first play, Baal?
(a) Shaw.
(b) Wedekind.
(c) Homolka.
(d) Piscator.

10. Brecht says actors should act for an audience of _____.
(a) Diplomats.
(b) The scientific age.
(c) The classical era.
(d) One.

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

12. Die Mutter is a piece of anti-metaphysical, materialistic, _____drama.
(a) Medieval.
(b) Non-aristotelian.
(c) Contradictory.
(d) Neo-classical.

13. How does Brecht describe sport audiences?
(a) As fair and shrewd.
(b) As rich and snobbish.
(c) As boorish and thoughtless.
(d) As square and lewd.

14. Elisabeth Begner and Rudolf Forster starred in Shaw's _____ in 1924.
(a) Major Barbara.
(b) Man and Superman.
(c) Saint Joan.
(d) Widowers' Houses.

15. What does Brecht say his poetry requires in "Conversations with Bert Brecht"?
(a) A complex lighting scheme.
(b) Banjo or piano accompaniment.
(c) A microphone.
(d) Many more revisions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word 'Spass' mean in German?

2. How does Brecht categorize opera?

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

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

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

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