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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1948-1956 (Berlin), Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brecht call the new style of acting that happened as a result of the Threepenny Opera?
(a) The epic style.
(b) Emotive.
(c) Neo-Shakespearean.
(d) Baconian.

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

3. The Berliner Ensemble didn't believe in cutting new actors off from _____.
(a) Marxist propaganda.
(b) Real life.
(c) Bourgeois values.
(d) Print media.

4. Who was in charge of Das Wort?
(a) Neher.
(b) Brecht.
(c) Scher.
(d) Bredel.

5. The actor masters his character by paying critical attention to its _____.
(a) Patterns of speech.
(b) Dialectic inflections.
(c) Manifold utterances.
(d) Mannerisms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Brecht categorizes the ruling classes in Hamlet as _____.

3. Brecht felt that for at least two generations, European drama had been passing though a period of _____.

4. Who wrote the play Fruhlingserwachen that helped Peter Lorre make a name for himself?

5. Epic theatre strives to achieve a character rather than a _____.

(see the answer key)

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