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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act III, Scene 1 through Act III, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Wendla die?
(a) Suicide.
(b) She is murdered to cover up her rape.
(c) Abortion pills.
(d) She is taken into custody and dies in prison.

2. Where does Act II, Scene 3 take place?
(a) The bathroom.
(b) Church.
(c) School.
(d) Hanschen's bedroom.

3. What are the teachers planning to do because of Moritz's suicide?
(a) Fail Melchior from class.
(b) Allow the church to provide counseling for their students.
(c) Lighten up on their students.
(d) Expel Melchior.

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

5. According to the pastor, what will happen to Moritz?
(a) His soul will walk the earth until Armageddon.
(b) Purgatory.
(c) Eternal damnation.
(d) He will go to Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Moritz's classmates speculate as the method of suicide?

3. What do the boys in Act 1, Scene 2 complain about?

4. What is considered the most sexual scene in A Children's Tragedy?

5. What does Melchior initially believe about people who do good works?

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