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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ten Notes: 6, God the Father, Father the God through 10, The Question of Style.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom was Wedekind finding conflict while writing his play?
(a) The government.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His lover.

2. What in particular does Bentley highlight in his Moritat?
(a) Sex.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Politics.
(d) Brotherly love.

3. What is the most important relationship depicted in A Children's Tragedy?
(a) Melchior and Wendla's relationship.
(b) The friendship between Moritz and Melchior.
(c) Ilsa and Moritz's near romance.
(d) The bond between Moritz and his father.

4. What is Melchior's relationship to Moritz?
(a) They are brothers.
(b) They are best friends.
(c) They are lovers.
(d) They are enemies.

5. When was the play produced in America?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1927.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what war was the play suppressed in Germany?

2. According to Bentley, what group of people does not like this play?

3. What did people find so offensive about A Children's Tragedy when it was first written?

4. In what form does the play begin?

5. Why does Moritz commit suicide?

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