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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of the introduction to the play?
(a) Noel Coward.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Eric Bentley.
(d) Frank Wedekind.

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

3. In Act 1, Scene 2, what does Moritz dream about?
(a) Sex.
(b) God.
(c) Hell.
(d) Dying.

4. What is the purpose of Wendla's errand in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) The plants are for medicine.
(b) The plants are to flavor wine.
(c) The wood is for a fire.
(d) The flowers are for a centerpiece.

5. In what decade did Wedekind write A Children's Tragedy?
(a) 1890s.
(b) 1870s.
(c) 1900s.
(d) 1880s.

6. For how long may Wendla wear her old dress?
(a) One more summer.
(b) One more month.
(c) One more week.
(d) One more year.

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

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

9. What girl is walking home with Wendla and Martha in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Ilsa.
(b) Helga.
(c) Bertha.
(d) Thea.

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

11. What sort of story is A Children's Tragedy?
(a) Theater of Cruelty.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Morality play.
(d) Coming-of-age.

12. Who do the girls in this play find very attractive?
(a) Moritz.
(b) Ernst.
(c) Melchior.
(d) Hanschen.

13. In the first scene, what does Wendla wonder about her future?
(a) She wonders if she will make it to adulthood.
(b) She wonders what sort of mother she will make.
(c) She wonders what she will look like in a few years.
(d) She wonders what sort of husband she will have.

14. What does Wendla ask of Melchior at the end of Act 1?
(a) She asks him to make love to her.
(b) She asks him to beat her.
(c) She asks him to run away to Berlin with her.
(d) She asks him if he would want to marry her one day.

15. How do all the boys in Act 1, Scene 2 two know each other?
(a) School.
(b) Church.
(c) Government-sanctioned parties.
(d) They are all related to each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the masked man, what is morality?

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

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

4. What was the result of Wedekind's conflicts while writing?

5. How is Wendla's body, in terms of maturation?

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