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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the cook try to exchange for dinner?
(a) Kattrin.
(b) Money.
(c) Supplies.
(d) Honesty.

3. What body part is one of the peasants missing after their farm is attacked?
(a) Some fingers.
(b) A foot.
(c) An arm.
(d) A leg.

4. Where is the peseants' ladder to get to the roof?
(a) On the roof.
(b) In town.
(c) Stolen.
(d) In the shed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mother Courage promise to Kattrin when there is peace?

2. Why does Mother Courage think Eilif is in high favor of the commander?

3. Why does Mother Courage give the peasants money before she leaves Kattrin's body with them?

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

5. What does the young solder threaten he will do to the captain?

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