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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act I, Scene 1 through Act I, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theatrical genre is combined with tragedy as part of this play's complexity?
(a) Comedy.
(b) Theater of cruelty.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Theater of the poor.

2. What is Thanatos according to Bentley?
(a) A drive towards life.
(b) Romantic love.
(c) Sexual love.
(d) Driving towards death.

3. Where does Act 1, Scene 2 take place?
(a) Outside.
(b) Melchior's home.
(c) School.
(d) Church.

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

5. What does Wendla claim about the thoughts her mother finds offensive in the first scene?
(a) She says that she overhears her mother expressing these thoughts.
(b) She says she hears the girls at school expressing similar thoughts.
(c) She says her sister tells her these thoughts.
(d) She says they come to her at night.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Moritz feel about his dreams?

2. Who wrote A Children's Tragedy?

3. Who starts to explain sex to Moritz in Act 1, Scene 2?

4. Who keeps Melchior from committing suicide?

5. According to the masked man, what is morality?

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