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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. In the first scene, what does Wendla wonder about her future?
(a) She wonders if she will make it to adulthood.
(b) She wonders what she will look like in a few years.
(c) She wonders what sort of mother she will make.
(d) She wonders what sort of husband she will have.

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

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

4. In the brief summary given in the introduction, what concept is Melchior struggling with?
(a) Political unrest.
(b) Sexual preference.
(c) Nationality.
(d) Morality.

5. To whom does Bentley relate the masked man, especially in relation to summary of morality?
(a) Wedekind.
(b) Faust.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Brecht.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many students in Melchior and Moritz's class will be allowed to graduate to the next grade?

2. In what decade did Wedekind write A Children's Tragedy?

3. How do all the boys in Act 1, Scene 2 two know each other?

4. What is Thanatos according to Bentley?

5. What was censored in reissues of A Children's Tragedy?

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