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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. Theaterarbeit is a collective volume of Brecht's work kept by _____.
(a) The Berliner Ensemble.
(b) His granddaughter.
(c) His mother.
(d) George Bernard Shaw.

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

3. What is the name of the Mother in Die Mutter?
(a) Elena.
(b) Helge.
(c) Misha.
(d) Vlassova.

4. What sort of approach does Brecht say the opera Mahagonny adopts?
(a) A didactic approach.
(b) A hedonistic approach.
(c) A pedantic approach.
(d) A communal approach.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the left-wing Socialists called in Brecht's time?

3. Brecht states that a film's needing human interest is equivalent to saying that it has got to be _____.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Piscator's influence obvious to Brecht in theatre in 1929?

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

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

4. What does Brecht tell Mr. X about the eternal urge to see of a play?

5. What is the relationship between a theatre and a play?

6. How does Brecht define a scapegoat and who incurs the wrath the most in theatre?

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

8. How does Brecht say that Capitalism operates?

9. Why does Brecht use the example of 'leave-taking' in "A Dialogue about Acting" and what does he mean by it?

10. Why was the editor not allowed to reproduce all of Brecht's essays?

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