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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Troubled Conscience of Victor Gollancz.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Brecht leave rights to his works to in his will?
(a) He left everything to his wife.
(b) He left different works to four women.
(c) He left half of his oeuvre to the Communist Party and half to his wife.
(d) He left his estate to his illegimate children and left out his wife.

2. Which of these was not written by Brecht?
(a) Rape of the Sabine women.
(b) The Life of Galileo.
(c) Mother Courage.
(d) The Trail of Lucullus.

3. How did Brecht die?
(a) He suffered a heart attack.
(b) He was executed by a West German sniper.
(c) He was in a car accident.
(d) He committed suicide.

4. What opera had Gollancz seen forty-seven times before the age of twenty-one?
(a) Turnadot.
(b) La Boheme.
(c) Faust.
(d) Aida.

5. What year did Gollancz break with the Communist party?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1938.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Gollancz die?

2. What country was Ibsen born in?

3. What venture did Gollancz start to counter the unwillingness of booksellers to stock ultra-left propaganda?

4. What did Brecht request to have done with his remains upon his death?

5. How did Ibsen pay for his university education?

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