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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Troubled Conscience of Victor Gollancz.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Brecht request to have done with his remains upon his death?
(a) He wanted to be cremated.
(b) He wanted to be buried in a steel coffin.
(c) He wanted to be buried at sea.
(d) He wanted to be interred in an above ground marble masoleum.

2. What was Brecht's first Marxist work that was produced in 1930?
(a) Die Massanhme.
(b) Erfolg.
(c) Kaspar.
(d) Threepenny Opera.

3. What venture did Gollancz start to counter the unwillingness of booksellers to stock ultra-left propaganda?
(a) The Left Book Club.
(b) The Canterbury Monthly.
(c) The Daily Worker.
(d) The CP Serial.

4. Why did Ibsen claim he liked to be around young women?
(a) He was attracted sexually to young girls.
(b) They were muses for his writing.
(c) He liked to have them about as servants to take care of him.
(d) He liked to pretend they were his daughters.

5. What award did Brecht win in 1922 for being the best young dramatist.
(a) The Nobel Prize for literature.
(b) The Kleist Prize.
(c) The Quill.
(d) The Pulitzer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ibsen feel about dogs?

2. Which of these was not written by Brecht?

3. What foreign country did Gollancz live in briefly while working for the Ministry of Food?

4. How was Brecht's work received in the United States?

5. What was Ibsen's last statement?

(see the answer key)

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