Bertolt Brecht quiz
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Where did Brecht spend most of World War II?
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How soon after his 1947 US hearing did Brecht flee America?
Answer: A day later
Why: Unlike the Hollywood Ten, who refused to answer and were cited for contempt, Brecht chose to testify.
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In which city was Brecht born?
Answer: Augsburg
Why: The Berlin link came later: he died in East Berlin in 1956 and is buried in its Dorotheenstadt Cemetery.
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Who did Brecht want theatre audiences to behave like?
Answer: Sports fans
Why: He admired how sports crowds drank, smoked and loudly judged the action, and even promoted a smoking theatre.
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What did Brecht call making the familiar look strange?
Answer: Alienation effect
Why: In German it is the Verfremdungseffekt, or V-effect, also translated as the distancing or estrangement effect.
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What did Brecht study at university in Munich?
Answer: Medicine
Why: When the army drafted him in autumn 1918, he served as a medical orderly before the war ended.
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Which Horace line nearly got schoolboy Brecht expelled?
Answer: Dulce et decorum est
Why: The line calls dying for one's country sweet and fitting, and the teenage Brecht dismissed it as propaganda.
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