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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mother Courage live off of?
(a) Her children's labor.
(b) War.
(c) The kindness of others.
(d) Her talents.

2. In the chaplain's opinion, where do commanders grow?
(a) In the ground.
(b) At home.
(c) On trees.
(d) In the heart.

3. What does the chaplain call the cook?
(a) A fool.
(b) A coward.
(c) A wizard.
(d) A Don Juan.

4. In Scene 10, Mother Courage and Kattrin stop at a ______ to listen to a woman sing.
(a) Bar.
(b) Campsite.
(c) Farmhouse.
(d) Lake.

5. Who comes with Mother Courage as she continues on at the end of the play?
(a) The peasants.
(b) No one.
(c) A little girl.
(d) The cook.

6. Instead of going with the cook to the inn, what does Mother Courage do at the end of Scene 9?
(a) Steals the cook's money.
(b) Abandons the cook.
(c) Gives Kattrin to him.
(d) Politely declines his offer.

7. Why do Mother Courage, Kattrin, and the cook stop at the parson's house?
(a) He knows where Eilif is.
(b) They can sleep there.
(c) He will give them directions.
(d) He has food.

8. How does Mother Courage see the chaplain?
(a) As a potential husband.
(b) As a fool.
(c) As a helping hand.
(d) As a father figure.

9. How does Kattrin react to the soldiers' attempts to silence her?
(a) She does what they ask.
(b) She throws things at them.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She runs away.

10. Why won't the young peasant help the soldiers in Scene 11?
(a) They are Catholic.
(b) They will wake the baby.
(c) They smell bad.
(d) They didn't ask nicely.

11. Where is Mother Courage when the soldiers come to the farmhouse?
(a) At the river.
(b) In town.
(c) Fighting.
(d) She's been kidnapped.

12. What are men doing instead of going to the commander's funeral?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Scheming.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Drinking.

13. The chaplain has _____ feelings for Mother Courage.
(a) Fatherly.
(b) Hateful.
(c) No.
(d) Romantic.

14. Why does Mother Courage give the peasants money before she leaves Kattrin's body with them?
(a) For their trouble.
(b) For food.
(c) To keep them quiet.
(d) To bury Kattrin.

15. In the chaplain's opinion, wars can look forward to ________ futures.
(a) Prosperous.
(b) Victorious.
(c) Devastating.
(d) Colorful.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mother Courage returns to the farmhouse, who is standing around Mother Courage and Kattrin's body?

2. Why should the cook talk quietly when he is talking to Mother Courage about the inn?

3. Why doesn't Mother Courage want peace?

4. The soldiers threaten Kattrin by saying if she doesn't stop her commotion they will smash ______.

5. How does the cook propose that he and Mother Courage call to the parson?

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