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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, 1918-1932 (Augsburg, Munich, Berlin), Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Three years after Brecht's attack, the Augsberg theatre turned entirely over to _____.
(a) Opera.
(b) The govenrment.
(c) Magicians.
(d) The symphony.

2. In what year did Brecht die?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1956.

3. What does Brecht call people who came to the theatre to get their cockles warmed in "Conversations with Bert Brecht"?
(a) Scum.
(b) Pot ash.
(c) Nobility.
(d) Vegetation.

4. When asked who Brecht wrote for in "Conversations with Bert Brecht", he said that he wrote for people who wanted to have fun and didn't hesitate to keep their _____ on in the theatre.
(a) Glasses.
(b) Boots.
(c) Coats.
(d) Hats.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Like Tolstoy and Strindberg, Brecht says that Wedekind was one of the greatest _____ of modern Europe.

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

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

4. How does Brecht describe sport audiences?

5. In "Shouldn't We Abolish Aesthetics?", Brecht hopes that _____ would be the death of their existing drama.

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