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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why should the cook talk quietly when he is talking to Mother Courage about the inn?
(a) Because he has an annoying voice.
(b) So Kattrin can't hear him.
(c) Because Kattrin is trying to sleep.
(d) So he doesn't wake the parson.

2. What does Mother Courage take from the soldier as payment?
(a) His brandy.
(b) His shoes.
(c) The fur coat.
(d) One guilder.

3. How cheaply does the officer sell bullets for?
(a) 50 hellers.
(b) 3 guilders.
(c) 2 guilders.
(d) 10 hellers.

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

5. Why won't Mother Courage use her officers' shirts as bandages?
(a) Because she doesn't have very many.
(b) Because it's disrespectful.
(c) Because she has a low opinion of peasants.
(d) Because they're expensive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Yvette sing "The Fraternization Song"?

2. What does it mean that there are no lights on in the parson's house?

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

4. Why does Yvette drink in the morning?

5. Why don't the peasants stay out of the line of fire when the Catholic soldiers attack their farm?

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