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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. Who wrote A Children's Tragedy?
(a) Bertolt Brecht.
(b) Frank Wedekind.
(c) Georg Buchner.
(d) Peter DeBerg.

2. Despite the complexity of A Children's Tragedy what striking aspect is the most widely known about this play?
(a) The complexity of the characters.
(b) The political undertones.
(c) The sexual content.
(d) The suicide.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the introduction, what is NOT one of the mentioned allusions in the play?

2. With whom was Wedekind finding conflict while writing his play?

3. What is interesting about realism and expressionism in regards to this play?

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

5. What in particular does Bentley highlight in his Moritat?

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