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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 looks his name up in the teacher's book.
(b) He overhears his teacher talking to another professor about him.
(c) He asks his teacher.
(d) He asks the teacher's assistant for help.

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

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

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

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

6. In what form does the play begin?
(a) Absurdism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Experimental.
(d) Expressionism.

7. According to Bentley's analysis, who may NOT be the masked figure at the end of the play?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Life.
(c) Satan.
(d) God.

8. What was the result of Wedekind's conflicts while writing?
(a) He left home.
(b) He left the country.
(c) He left his position within the government.
(d) He moved into a commune for artists.

9. What is a Moritat?
(a) A postscript.
(b) A short statement.
(c) A story written backwards.
(d) A short poem.

10. What in particular does Bentley highlight in his Moritat?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Politics.
(c) Sex.
(d) Brotherly love.

11. What information does Moritz discover in Act 1, Scene 4 that cheers him up?
(a) He will be sent two grades up in advanced classes.
(b) He is still passing his grade.
(c) He has already flunked out of school.
(d) He will be promoted to the next grade.

12. Where does Act 1, Scene 2 take place?
(a) Church.
(b) Melchior's home.
(c) Outside.
(d) School.

13. What does Melchior tell Wendla about his belief in people who enjoy doing charity work?
(a) They will end up disappointed.
(b) They will end up in Hell.
(c) They will end up in Heaven.
(d) They will end up being taken advantage of.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bentley, what event in Wedekind's life influences the plot of A Children's Tragedy?

2. In what country does A Children's Tragedy take place?

3. Who starts to explain sex to Moritz in Act 1, Scene 2?

4. What does Mrs. Bergmann wonder about Wendla in the first scene?

5. How does Moritz feel about his dreams?

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