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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1918-1932 (Augsburg, Munich, Berlin), Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the word 'Spass' mean in German?
(a) Long.
(b) Fun.
(c) Classical.
(d) Free.

4. Brecht felt that in the great American comedies, the human being is presented as _____.
(a) An object.
(b) An animal.
(c) A tyrant.
(d) An oracle.

5. Like Tolstoy and Strindberg, Brecht says that Wedekind was one of the greatest _____ of modern Europe.
(a) Educators.
(b) Millionaires.
(c) Performers.
(d) Administrators.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the play, Konjunktur?

2. What does Brecht call the new style of acting that happened as a result of the Threepenny Opera?

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

4. How does Brecht say that the opera, the stage, and the press impose their views on the public?

5. What is the name of Peter Lorre's character, the packer in Mann ist Mann?

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