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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the result of Wedekind's conflicts while writing?
(a) He left home.
(b) He moved into a commune for artists.
(c) He left his position within the government.
(d) He left the country.

2. How does Moritz discover the information in Act 1, Scene 4 that cheers him up?
(a) He looks his name up in the teacher's book.
(b) He asks his teacher.
(c) He overhears his teacher talking to another professor about him.
(d) He asks the teacher's assistant for help.

3. What girl is walking home with Wendla and Martha in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Thea.
(b) Bertha.
(c) Helga.
(d) Ilsa.

4. What did people find so offensive about A Children's Tragedy when it was first written?
(a) The criticism of Germany's role in Hitler's rise to power.
(b) The sexual content.
(c) Wedekind's sexuality.
(d) Wedekind's political alliances.

5. How many students are competing for sixty seats?
(a) Sixty-one.
(b) Sixty-seven.
(c) Sixty-five.
(d) Sixty-three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Act 1, Scene 2 take place?

2. Who is the author of the introduction to the play?

3. What does Moritz admit to considering if he flunks?

4. What are Melchior, Moritz, and the boys doing outside in Act 1, Scene 2?

5. What excuse does Moritz give in order to escape the discussion about sex?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the introduction, why is this play deemed as widely disliked by feminists?

2. What is significant about the number sixty in relation to Moritz?

3. What does Moritz believe is the purpose of his school's exams?

4. What is the purpose of the Moritat in the introduction?

5. How does the introduction of this play describe Eros and Thanatos?

6. What are Melchior's beliefs about good deeds, as related to Wendla?

7. What startling admission does Moritz give in Act I, Scene 4? Why?

8. What event does Bentley claim influence Wedekind? Why?

9. What conflicts does Bentley discuss were essential to Wedekind during the writing of "Spring Awakening"? Why?

10. How does Bentley describe Moritz and Melchior in relation to each other in his introduction?

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