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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which cartoonist contributed drawings for Schweik?
(a) Geor Grosz.
(b) David Füleki.
(c) Rötger Feldmann.
(d) Otto Nückel.

2. The goal of epic theatre is less to moralize than to _____.
(a) Contradict.
(b) Eviscerate.
(c) Observe.
(d) Elicit.

3. What is the main task of epic theatre?
(a) To mask.
(b) To report.
(c) To exaggerate.
(d) To emote.

4. Brecht describes the Aristotelian play as essentially _____.
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Static.
(c) Dynamic.
(d) Didactic.

5. Brecht states that concern with subject and concern with form are _____.
(a) Complementary.
(b) Contradictory.
(c) Mutually exclusive.
(d) Counter-productive.

6. _____ is a collection of Brecht's theoretical writings published by Surhkamp.
(a) Versuche.
(b) Arbeitsbuch.
(c) Stucke.
(d) Schriften zum Theater.

7. Brecht states that a film's needing human interest is equivalent to saying that it has got to be _____.
(a) Successful
(b) Vulgar.
(c) Expensive.
(d) Pious.

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

9. Who wrote the play, Konjunktur?
(a) Jessner.
(b) Lania.
(c) Bronnen.
(d) Kortner.

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

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

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

13. What does Brecht say his poetry requires in "Conversations with Bert Brecht"?
(a) A complex lighting scheme.
(b) Many more revisions.
(c) A microphone.
(d) Banjo or piano accompaniment.

14. Who was the best-known composer that Brecht worked with?
(a) Casterede.
(b) Hindemith.
(c) Prokofiev.
(d) Berg.

15. Die Mutter is based on whose novel, Mother?
(a) Gorki.
(b) Goedel.
(c) Chaplin.
(d) Penderecki.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Mother in Die Mutter?

2. Where was Die Asthetschen Anschauungen Berthold Brechts published?

3. Who does Brecht mention in association with Paris theatre when he talks about the theatre centers of the world?

4. Elisabeth Begner and Rudolf Forster starred in Shaw's _____ in 1924.

5. Who starred in City Lights?

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