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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kattrin react when the peasants tell her there are children in town?
(a) She grows hysterical.
(b) She is happy.
(c) She is indifferent.
(d) She is troubled.

2. Why doesn't Mother Courage want bed feathers?
(a) Because she's allergic.
(b) Because she's morally opposed to them.
(c) Because no one has beds.
(d) Because she already has some.

3. Why is Eilif being killed?
(a) He's a traitor.
(b) He stole the Chief's wife.
(c) He attacked peasants.
(d) He is a lazy soldier.

4. Why is Mother Courage so concerned about the war ending?
(a) She's bored with war.
(b) She might buy more supplies.
(c) She wants to see her son again.
(d) She made a prophecy.

5. Why is Mother Courage encouraged to leave the farmhouse quickly and not stay with Kattrin's body?
(a) Soldiers are coming.
(b) The peasants are angry.
(c) She is very rude.
(d) It's getting dark.

6. Why couldn't Kattrin pull the cart by herself?
(a) People will take advantage of her.
(b) She is too weak.
(c) She is bad with directions.
(d) War terrifies her.

7. A peasant claims Kattrin would still be alive if ____________.
(a) Eilif was still alive.
(b) Mother Courage hadn't gone to town.
(c) They hadn't told her about the children.
(d) The soldiers hadn't come.

8. What does the cook call the chaplain when they fight over Mother Courage?
(a) A windbag.
(b) A fool.
(c) A hero.
(d) A stud.

9. Where is Mother Courage going at the end of the play?
(a) Home.
(b) To follow the regiment.
(c) Utrecht.
(d) Bavaria.

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

11. Before she leaves the peasants' farmhouse, what does Mother Courage get for Kattrin from the wagon?
(a) Fresh clothes.
(b) Her doll.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A cloth.

12. Why does Kattrin go to the roof?
(a) To look at stars.
(b) To jump off.
(c) To warn the peasants.
(d) To get some perspective.

13. When Mother Courage returns to the farmhouse, who is standing around Mother Courage and Kattrin's body?
(a) The cook and chaplain.
(b) The peasants.
(c) The ghosts of her children.
(d) Soldiers.

14. What is the cook's name, according to Yvette?
(a) John Doe.
(b) Don Juan.
(c) Peter Piper.
(d) Uncle Sam.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the cook angry with the chaplain when he returns?

2. A soldier tells Kattrin if she comes down from the roof and takes them to her mother, they will ______________.

3. Instead of going with the cook to the inn, what does Mother Courage do at the end of Scene 9?

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

5. Who does Yvette marry?

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