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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. According to Moritz, what is designed to flunk out the students at their school?
(a) The tardiness policy.
(b) Exams.
(c) Personality tests.
(d) The absence policy.

2. What excuse does Moritz give in order to escape the discussion about sex?
(a) He has too much homework.
(b) He needs to talk to his father.
(c) He needs to go pray.
(d) He needs to find his girlfriend.

3. How does Melchior feel about people who end up in Hell because they do not enjoy visiting the poor?
(a) It is society's fault for putting the pressure on them.
(b) It is through no fault of their own.
(c) It is entirely their fault.
(d) It is the Church's fault.

4. What was censored in reissues of A Children's Tragedy?
(a) Sexual words.
(b) Any unflattering references to the adult figures.
(c) Words alluding to the political unrest.
(d) Any words that were not German.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the function of the Moritat in the introduction?

2. Where does Act 1, Scene 5 take place?

3. What is considered the most sexual scene in A Children's Tragedy?

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

5. Who keeps Melchior from committing suicide?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Mrs. Bergmann concerned about Wendla's old dress?

3. What are some of the ways this play was censored in re-prints?

4. What are some of the main philosophical influences and allusions in A Children's Tragedy?

5. Why did Martha's parents rip her nightgown from her?

6. How does Bentley describe Moritz and Melchior in relation to each other in his introduction?

7. What happened to "Spring Awakening" in America after publication? Why?

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

9. What conflicts does Bentley discuss were essential to Wedekind during the writing of "Spring Awakening"? Why?

10. Describe Martha's parents.

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