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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scenes 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does it mean that there are no lights on in the parson's house?
(a) They're hiding.
(b) No one's awake.
(c) They've been robbed.
(d) No one's home.

2. Mother Courage thinks Eilif should be ashamed of himself for speculating about ______________.
(a) The kindness of others.
(b) His future.
(c) His commander's orders.
(d) Her love.

3. Where does Swiss Cheese plan to hide the pay box?
(a) Under some clothes.
(b) In his bag.
(c) In another tent.
(d) Under the mattress.

4. Why doesn't Mother Courage have any bandages to help the peasants with?
(a) She sold them all to soldiers.
(b) She was robbed.
(c) They are impossible to find.
(d) She used them herself.

5. Why won't Mother Courage help the peasant family that was injured in the attack on their farm?
(a) Because they deserved what happened to them.
(b) Because they are thieves.
(c) Because they're Protestants.
(d) Because they don't have any money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why couldn't Kattrin pull the cart by herself?

2. Who is saying Yvette is sick?

3. Why can't Kattrin come to the inn?

4. When her mother doesn't help the peasants, why does Kattrin pick up the wooden board in the tent?

5. Mother Courage observes that Kattrin "sits, happy as a _______ in all this misery" of the suffering peasants.

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