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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. What were the left-wing Socialists called in Brecht's time?
(a) The Strong Arm Society.
(b) The NKVD.
(c) The Collective.
(d) The USPD.

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

3. Who was the interviewer in "Conversations with Bert Brecht"?
(a) Bernard Guillemin.
(b) Rheinhold Grimm.
(c) Helen Weigel.
(d) Samuel Bernadin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The translator's notes in number 37 give a provisional account of the most important of Brecht's _____.

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

3. _____ are Brecht's collected poems.

4. What is the name of the book that contains Walter Nubel Brecht's bibliography that lists Berthold Brecht's works?

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

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