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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Moritz discover the information in Act 1, Scene 4 that cheers him up?
(a) He asks the teacher's assistant for help.
(b) He looks his name up in the teacher's book.
(c) He asks his teacher.
(d) He overhears his teacher talking to another professor about him.

2. What does Mrs. Bergmann wonder about Wendla in the first scene?
(a) She wonders if Wendla is aware of her changing body.
(b) She wonders what Wendla will look like in a few years.
(c) She wonders if Wendla will survive her adolescence.
(d) She wonders what sort of mother Wendla will make.

3. How many students are competing for sixty seats?
(a) Sixty-one.
(b) Sixty-three.
(c) Sixty-five.
(d) Sixty-seven.

4. What does Moritz believe about why students will flunk out of their class?
(a) He believes students that are flunked are victims of class discrimination.
(b) He believes students who flunk are merely lazy.
(c) He believes that students who flunk are too smart for school.
(d) He believes that the school is making the class small enough to fit in next year's classroom.

5. What form does the play evolve into?
(a) Absurdism.
(b) Expressionism.
(c) Experimental.
(d) Realism.

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

7. How does Moritz feel about his dreams?
(a) He does not understand them.
(b) He believes they are messages from God.
(c) He fears they are evil dreams.
(d) He looks forward to them.

8. How wide is Moritz's knowledge of maturation?
(a) He is completely ignorant.
(b) He has already had sex.
(c) He has read a book with a sex scene.
(d) He knows more about sex than the rest of his class.

9. According to the summary, who is raped in A Children's Tragedy?
(a) Wendla.
(b) Moritz.
(c) Thea.
(d) Melchior.

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

11. What does Moritz admit to considering if he flunks?
(a) Entering the church.
(b) Running away.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Becoming a criminal.

12. What does Wendla claim about the thoughts her mother finds offensive in the first scene?
(a) She says that she overhears her mother expressing these thoughts.
(b) She says they come to her at night.
(c) She says her sister tells her these thoughts.
(d) She says she hears the girls at school expressing similar thoughts.

13. What is one of the first things presented in the introduction?
(a) A timeline of Wedekind's life with emphasis on events that inspired A Children's Tragedy.
(b) A pie chart depicting the average number of sexually active teenagers.
(c) A timeline of the play's publication and productions.
(d) A graph showing the correlation between sexual activity and suicide.

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

15. Because of the objectionable content of the play, what did Wedekind have to do for the play to be printed?
(a) Pay for publication himself.
(b) Write out every script used for the first performance.
(c) Agree to a free commission of another play for the publisher.
(d) Marry the daughter of a publisher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls in Act 1, Scene 3 decide they all want one day?

2. What is Thanatos according to Bentley?

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

4. In Act 1, Scene 2, what does Moritz dream about?

5. To whom does Bentley relate the masked man, especially in relation to summary of morality?

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