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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who starts to explain sex to Moritz in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Mortiz's father.
(b) Ilsa.
(c) Wendla.
(d) Melchior.

3. In what way is the love between Moritz and Melchior described?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Unhealthy.
(c) Fraternal.
(d) Co-dependent.

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

5. While Wedekind wrote his play, what were people questioning?
(a) Wedekind's writing style.
(b) War.
(c) The censoring of theater and literature.
(d) The father's authority.

6. Despite the complexity of A Children's Tragedy what striking aspect is the most widely known about this play?
(a) The complexity of the characters.
(b) The suicide.
(c) The political undertones.
(d) The sexual content.

7. Where does Act 1, Scene 5 take place?
(a) The woods.
(b) The barn.
(c) School.
(d) The river.

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

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

10. What are Melchior, Moritz, and the boys doing outside in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Singing.
(b) Digging holes.
(c) Playing.
(d) Studying.

11. What do the girls in Act 1, Scene 3 decide they all want one day?
(a) Daughters.
(b) Husbands.
(c) Sons.
(d) Lovers.

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

13. According to Bentley, what event in Wedekind's life influences the plot of A Children's Tragedy?
(a) A double suicide at the author's school.
(b) Coming out to his family.
(c) His sister ran away from home.
(d) His girlfriend's miscarriage.

14. During what war was the play censored in Germany?
(a) Korean War.
(b) Vietnam War.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

15. To whom does Bentley relate the masked man, especially in relation to summary of morality?
(a) Faust.
(b) Brecht.
(c) Wedekind.
(d) Goethe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Melchior and Moritz talk about when they are alone in Act 1, Scene 2?

2. What happened to the play after it was first printed?

3. What fantasy does Wendla admit to having to Melchior?

4. How many students in Melchior and Moritz's class will be allowed to graduate to the next grade?

5. How wide is Moritz's knowledge of maturation?

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