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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) Primary characters.
(b) Stock characters.
(c) Secondary characters.
(d) Cameos.

2. What in particular does Bentley highlight in his Moritat?
(a) Brotherly love.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Sex.
(d) Politics.

3. How many years after the initial publication was the play performed in America?
(a) 25.
(b) It has never been produced in America.
(c) 20.
(d) 35.

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

5. Ultimately, what does Bentley suggest about the masked man?
(a) He is a father's voice from Melchior's subconscious.
(b) He is Melchior's inner child.
(c) He is the voice of Melchior's conscience.
(d) He is Moritz's father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Melchior's relationship to Moritz?

3. What sort of story is A Children's Tragedy?

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

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

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