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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. _____ essays in magazines have also been used for reference in this book.
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Pre-World War II.
(c) Posthumous.
(d) Communist.

3. In reference to film, Brecht felt that the mechanization of literary production cannot be _____.
(a) Thrown off a cliff.
(b) Anticipated.
(c) Detached.
(d) Thrown into reverse.

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

5. What does Brecht call the new style of acting that happened as a result of the Threepenny Opera?
(a) The epic style.
(b) Baconian.
(c) Neo-Shakespearean.
(d) Emotive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Brecht win in 1922 for Trommeln in der Nacht?

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

3. Theaterarbeit is a collective volume of Brecht's work kept by _____.

4. _____ are Brecht's collected poems.

5. Who wrote the play, Konjunktur?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Brecht write that there is nothing at all new about epic theater?

2. What songs did Brecht sing with Wedekind and what were they about?

3. Compare the function of music in dramatic opera to epic opera.

4. How were theatrical productions in Russia, America and Germany similar to each other in Brecht's time.

5. In the editor's opinion, in what way did Brecht's ideas on theatre evolve?

6. What was theatre like and what was the flaw that young people found in theatre after World War I?

7. What has the translation tried to convey?

8. What does Brecht say about inviting small guest companies to perform in the Augsberg theater?

9. What innovations happened as a result of writing the book?

10. What was the function of the big canvas at the back of the stage in the production of Die Mutter?

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