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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which aspect of epic theatre added statistical material?
(a) Paintings.
(b) A narrator.
(c) Projections.
(d) Leaflets.

3. Brecht states that radical transformation of theatre can't be the result of some _____.
(a) Artistic whim.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Recommendation.
(d) Second thought.

4. Which cartoonist contributed drawings for Schweik?
(a) Otto Nückel.
(b) David Füleki.
(c) Rötger Feldmann.
(d) Geor Grosz.

5. What does Brecht say put a stop to epic and didactic tendencies of theatre in Berlin?
(a) Fascism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Apathy.

6. Brecht states that "A theatre which makes no contact with the public is _____."
(a) Sacred.
(b) Anonymous.
(c) Nonsense.
(d) Perfect.

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

8. What is the name of Peter Lorre's character, the packer in Mann ist Mann?
(a) Macheath.
(b) Gay Gay.
(c) Ton Ton.
(d) Macbeth.

9. Which aspect of epic theatre enlightened the spectator about facts unknown to him?
(a) Pre-show talks.
(b) Programs.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Choruses.

10. How does Brecht describe the flesh and bones resistance to formula in the Threepenny Opera?
(a) As trivial.
(b) As a diversion technique.
(c) As pure socialism.
(d) As Baconian materialism.

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

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

13. Who were Brecht's Frankfurt publishers?
(a) Schoenhofs.
(b) Hartel-Verlag.
(c) Breitkopf Hartel.
(d) Suhrkamp-Verlag.

14. What were the left-wing Socialists called in Brecht's time?
(a) The Collective.
(b) The USPD.
(c) The Strong Arm Society.
(d) The NKVD.

15. Three years after Brecht's attack, the Augsberg theatre turned entirely over to _____.
(a) The symphony.
(b) Opera.
(c) Magicians.
(d) The govenrment.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Brecht collaborate on the Berlin production of his first play, Baal?

2. How does Brecht say that the opera, the stage, and the press impose their views on the public?

3. What is the name of the book that contains Walter Nubel Brecht's bibliography that lists Berthold Brecht's works?

4. Die Mutter is based on whose novel, Mother?

5. Brecht states that when an actor sings, he undergoes a change of _____.

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