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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1948-1956 (Berlin), Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Brecht says actors should act for an audience of _____.
(a) The classical era.
(b) One.
(c) The scientific age.
(d) Diplomats.

2. Who does Brecht mention in association with London theatre when he talks about the theatre centers of the world?
(a) Lorre.
(b) Stanfield.
(c) Cochran.
(d) Michaels.

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

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

5. Life of Galileo has the main character giving a boy a lesson on _____.
(a) Color theory.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The solar system.
(d) Didactics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brecht call people who came to the theatre to get their cockles warmed in "Conversations with Bert Brecht"?

2. Who was the best-known composer that Brecht worked with?

3. _____ means intelligible to the broad masses.

4. _____ is a collection of Brecht's theoretical writings published by Surhkamp.

5. Brecht states that concern with subject and concern with form are _____.

(see the answer key)

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