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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Brecht give an explanation of Ber Flug der Lindberghs in 1929?
(a) The Baden-Baden music festival.
(b) In London.
(c) The Kleist Prize ceremony.
(d) The Hague.

2. Who starred in City Lights?
(a) Peter Lorre.
(b) Charlie Chaplin.
(c) Errol Flynn.
(d) John Huston.

3. _____ are Brecht's collected plays in twelve volumes by Surhkamp and by Aufbau from 1953 and after.
(a) Achtwerke.
(b) Stucke.
(c) Epischen Theater.
(d) Achtarbeiten.

4. How does Brecht categorize opera?
(a) As culinary.
(b) As trashy.
(c) As holistic.
(d) As holy.

5. Where did Piscator go 'gloomily' off to to make films after he staged Section 218?
(a) Moscow.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Hollywood.

6. Who wrote the Beggar's Opera?
(a) Milhaud.
(b) Mattheson.
(c) Gorki.
(d) Gray.

7. Who created the lead role for Die Mutter?
(a) Elisabeth Hauptmann.
(b) Helene Weigel.
(c) Anne Guttermann.
(d) Elisabeth Scherr.

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

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

10. The goal of epic theatre is less to moralize than to _____.
(a) Observe.
(b) Contradict.
(c) Elicit.
(d) Eviscerate.

11. Where was Theaterarbeit published?
(a) Munich.
(b) Copenhagen.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Dresden.

12. The organization of this book is _____.
(a) Epistemological.
(b) Chronological.
(c) Grammatical.
(d) Ideological.

13. What aspect of opera does Brecht think the public adores?
(a) Its backwardness.
(b) Its music.
(c) Its truth.
(d) Its lavishness.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brecht praise Georg Kaiser for?

2. Brecht states that "A theatre which makes no contact with the public is _____."

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

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

5. Who does Brecht mention in association with London theatre when he talks about the theatre centers of the world?

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