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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. What is a Moritat?
(a) A story written backwards.
(b) A short poem.
(c) A postscript.
(d) A short statement.

2. During what war was the play censored in Germany?
(a) Vietnam War.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) Korean War.

3. According to the masked man, what is morality?
(a) A made-up concept to keep people in line.
(b) What the government says should be done.
(c) A fallacy of "doing good."
(d) A mixture of what people think should be done and what they want to do.

4. Who is the author of the introduction to the play?
(a) Antonin Artaud.
(b) Frank Wedekind.
(c) Eric Bentley.
(d) Noel Coward.

5. In the introduction, what is NOT one of the mentioned allusions in the play?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Faust.
(c) Brecht.
(d) The Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bentley's analysis, who may NOT be the masked figure at the end of the play?

2. What is Eros according to Bentley?

3. Why does Wendla die?

4. In the brief summary given in the introduction, what concept is Melchior struggling with?

5. Ultimately, what does Bentley suggest about the masked man?

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