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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ten Notes: 6, God the Father, Father the God through 10, The Question of Style.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of characters are the women in A Children's Tragedy?
(a) Secondary characters.
(b) Primary characters.
(c) Cameos.
(d) Stock characters.

2. How does Bentley describe Moritz and Melchior in relationship to each other?
(a) Extremely alike.
(b) Complete opposites.
(c) A surrogate fatherly relationship.
(d) The result of one person's love not being reciprocated.

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

4. What is interesting about realism and expressionism in regards to this play?
(a) The play makes a clear stand against realism.
(b) The play ignores both styles and mocks them in absurdism.
(c) The play mixes both of them together.
(d) The play makes a clear stand against expressionism.

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. In what country does A Children's Tragedy take place?

2. Who does Bentley believe is the inspiration for the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Gabor?

3. During what war was the play suppressed in Germany?

4. Who wrote A Children's Tragedy?

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

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