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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theatrical genre is combined with tragedy as part of this play's complexity?
(a) Theater of cruelty.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Theater of the poor.
(d) Absurdism.

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

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

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

5. Who keeps Melchior from committing suicide?
(a) Moritz.
(b) Ernst.
(c) Wendla.
(d) A masked man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the purpose of Wendla's errand in Act 1, Scene 5?

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

4. In what decade did Wedekind write A Children's Tragedy?

5. What does Moritz admit to considering if he flunks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the main theme of one of the characters that is pointed out as being a philosophy of Goethe.

2. According to the summary in the introduction, what will happen to Melchior?

3. What startling admission does Moritz give in Act I, Scene 4? Why?

4. What is significant about the number sixty in relation to Moritz?

5. According to Bentley, what are some possible identities of the masked man at the end of the play?

6. How does the introduction of this play describe Eros and Thanatos?

7. Why is this play described as "coming-of-age?"

8. How was "Spring Awakening" treated in Germany during both World Wars?

9. Why does Moritz not want to listen to Melchior's explanations about sex?

10. What are Melchior's beliefs about good deeds, as related to Wendla?

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