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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act I, Scene 3 through Act I, Scene 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many students in Melchior and Moritz's class will be allowed to graduate to the next grade?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Forty.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Fifty.

2. In the most sexual scene of the play, what is alluded to heavily?
(a) Faust.
(b) Goethe.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Brecht.

3. With whom was Wedekind finding conflict while writing his play?
(a) His lover.
(b) The government.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

4. Who keeps Melchior from committing suicide?
(a) A masked man.
(b) Ernst.
(c) Moritz.
(d) Wendla.

5. What is Melchior's relationship to Moritz?
(a) They are brothers.
(b) They are best friends.
(c) They are enemies.
(d) They are lovers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Moritz react when being told about sex?

2. How does Moritz feel about his dreams?

3. What theatrical genre is combined with tragedy as part of this play's complexity?

4. In the first scene, what does Wendla wonder about her future?

5. According to Bentley's analysis, who may NOT be the masked figure at the end of the play?

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