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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mother Courage compare mixing the slips of paper in the helmet to?
(a) Dust in the wind.
(b) A mother's womb.
(c) A garden.
(d) Clouds.

2. Swiss Cheese takes after a _____ man.
(a) Hungarian.
(b) French.
(c) Italian.
(d) Cuban.

3. What does the sergeant claim is hypocritical of Mother Courage?
(a) She is mean.
(b) She doesn't care about her children.
(c) She is afraid of war.
(d) She is a bad businesswoman.

4. Why does Kattrin run into the peasants' dilapidated house?
(a) Mother Courage told her to.
(b) She has a death wish.
(c) Her mother's supplies are inside.
(d) There's a baby inside.

5. Why would Kattrin be bad for business at the inn?
(a) She is a bad dancer.
(b) She steals.
(c) She is scarred.
(d) She is clumsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The older soldier says that the young soldier is ______.

2. Why can't the peasants go to town the night the soldiers come to their farmhouse?

3. How much does the cook end up buying the capon for?

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

5. Why does Mother Courage tear slips of paper?

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