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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act III, Scene 4 through Act III, Scene 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Act III, Scene 6 take place?
(a) Church.
(b) Grape vineyards.
(c) School.
(d) The riverbank.

2. What does Moritz plead for Melchior to do?
(a) Leave the cemetery.
(b) Keep on living.
(c) Forget about him and Wendla.
(d) Join him in death.

3. What is Wendla's mother doing to her daughter's dress in the beginning of the play?
(a) Sewing a new one.
(b) Hemming a too-long dress.
(c) Letting down the hem of a short dress.
(d) Repairing a torn sleeve.

4. Why does Melchior try to force Wendla to leave him alone when she comes looking for him in Act II, Scene 4?
(a) He is angry with her.
(b) He is depressed and wants to be left alone.
(c) He is embarrassed.
(d) He is afraid.

5. In what form does the play begin?
(a) Experimental.
(b) Realism.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Expressionism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the most sexual scene of the play, what is alluded to heavily?

2. How was the rape scene censored in reissues of A Children's Tragedy?

3. How do Martha's parents treat her?

4. What does Melchior start to do to Wendla when she begins to object in Act II, Scene 4?

5. At the end of Act II, Scene 1, what do Melchior and Moritz wonder about?

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