1. When was Bertolt Brecht born?
**1898**
2. In what city was Bertolt Brecht born?
**Augsburg, Germany**
3. What was Bertolt Brecht's occupation?
**Playwright, poet, and theater director**
4. What was one of Brecht's most famous plays?
**The Threepenny Opera**
5. Who composed the music for The Threepenny Opera?
**Kurt Weill**
6. What style of theater did Brecht help develop called?
**Epic theater**
7. What was Brecht's goal with epic theater?
**To alienate the audience and make them think critically rather than emotionally identify with characters**
8. What literary technique did Brecht develop called to distance the audience?
**Verfremdungseffekt or "alienation effect"**
9. What was one element Brecht used like film intertitles to comment on the action?
**Intertitles**
10. What was Brecht's political ideology?
**Marxism**
11. What country did Brecht have to flee from under Nazi rule?
**Germany**
12. In what year did Brecht die?
**1956**
13. In what city did Brecht die?
**East Berlin**
14. What was the cause of Brecht's death?
**Lung cancer due to heavy smoking**
15. What was the name of Brecht's wife?
**Helene Weigel**
16. How many years younger than Brecht was his wife?
**23 years**
17. What was one of Brecht's earliest plays his wife appeared in?
**Baal**
18. What prominent German philosopher influenced Brecht's socialist views?
**Karl Marx**
19. During what literary movement was Brecht active?
**Modernism**
20. What was the name of Brecht's pet dog that appeared in some of his early works?
**Barbieri**
21. What institution opposed Galileo Galilei that was referenced in Brecht's Life of Galileo?
**The Catholic Church**
22. During what war is Mother Courage and Her Children set during?
**The Thirty Years' War**
23. What Chinese folk tale did Brecht retell in The Caucasian Chalk Circle?
**The Chalk Circle**
24. What comedic play by Brecht features a wealthy man and his servant?
**Mr Puntila and His Man Matti**
25. Besides Germany, in what other country were Brecht's plays banned?
**The USSR**
26. True or false: Brecht had a fear of dentists.
**True**
27. What board game was Brecht an avid player of?
**Chess**
28. What type of alcohol did Brecht enjoy despite his Marxist views?
**Wine and cognac**
29. What habit may have contributed to Brecht's lung cancer?
**Heavy cigar smoking**
30. After Brecht's death, how many years did his wife refuse productions of his plays?
**10 years**
31. What play by Brecht is an allegory questioning the ability to do good amid capitalism's harms?
**The Good Person of Szechwan**
32. What epic drama cycle about the Paris Commune did Brecht work on in his later years?
**The Days of the Commune**
33. What character did Brecht's pet dog Barbieri play in some of his early works?
**Himself**
34. Where was Brecht's school located he attended as a youth?
**Augsburg**
35. What was innovative about Brecht's use of songs in his plays?
**They advanced plot and altered perspective on events**
36. What style of language did Brecht favor using in his plays?
**Colloquial everyday speech**
37. Where did Brecht live out his later years?
**Berlin, in East Germany**
38. What Austrian scientist did Brecht criticixe in his play Life of Galileo for his faith in logic and science?
**Galileo Galilei**
39. What was Brecht's mother's name?
**Sophie Brecht**
40. What German city was the setting for Brecht's Threepenny Opera?
**London**
41. What character did Helene Weigel play in Brecht's Threepenny Opera?
**Mrs. Peachum**
42. Which great German dramatist greatly influenced Brecht's early work?
**Frank Wedekind**
43. True or false: Brecht openly welcomed collaboration and modification of his works.
**True**
44. What literary movement that valorized emotion did Brecht strongly reject?
**Aristotelianism**
45. Which European country did Brecht immigrate to in the 1930s to escape the Nazis?
**Finland**
46. What Brecht work is about a returning soldier in the 1920s grappling with social change?
**Mann ist Mann**
47. What type of notes was Brecht famous for taking during performances of his plays?
**Extensive script notes**
48. Where was Brecht's ashes scattered after his death?
**The Baltic Sea**
49. What Brecht work written in the 1920s featured ballads and was set in Victorian London?
**The Threepenny Opera**
50. What Brecht play from the 1950s deals with ethics and features the goddess of mercy?
**The Good Person of Szechwan**
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