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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kattrin retrieve from the peasants' house?
(a) Photos.
(b) A baby.
(c) Money.
(d) Clothes.

2. What does Mother Courage run with through the bombardment, giving her her nickname?
(a) Her children.
(b) Fifty loaves of bread.
(c) Medical supplies.
(d) An important message.

3. Where in the world is Mother Courage's family from?
(a) Bavaria.
(b) France.
(c) Holland.
(d) America.

4. What does the clerk know about Mother Courage?
(a) She betrayed her children.
(b) She is a good businesswoman.
(c) She is a legend.
(d) She was hiding Swiss Cheese.

5. Why does Mother Courage draw a black cross for "death"?
(a) Because she read it in a book.
(b) Because she is religious.
(c) Because death is black.
(d) Because she saw it in her dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Swiss Cheese's real name?

2. What bible passage does the chaplain quote after Eilif's story?

3. Why does Eilif sing "The Song of the Wise Woman and the Soldier"?

4. Why won't Swiss Cheese steal the money from the pay box?

5. Mother Courage says it's _______ everyone is missing the commander's funeral.

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