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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) Her talents.
(c) The kindness of others.
(d) War.

2. Why does Mother Courage leave the farmhouse at the end of the play?
(a) To find food.
(b) To go back to business.
(c) To pray for Swiss Cheese.
(d) To escape a bounty hunter.

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

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

5. Instead of bells, what will there be at the commander's funeral?
(a) Live music.
(b) Gun shots.
(c) Song.
(d) Drums.

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

7. Instead of being dead, Mother Courage insists that Kattrin is ______.
(a) Asleep.
(b) Alive.
(c) Injured.
(d) Pretending.

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

9. The peasant woman calls Kattrin a ______ when she tells her to stop drumming.
(a) Hero.
(b) Beast.
(c) Fool.
(d) Coward.

10. Why will it be easier for Kattrin to find a husband at the inn?
(a) She will be wealthy.
(b) The cook could find her one.
(c) There are nice men in the town.
(d) Because she will have a position.

11. How do the soldiers silence Kattrin?
(a) They climb up on the roof.
(b) They shoot her.
(c) They scold her.
(d) They smash the wagon.

12. Mother Courage claims that Kattrin would still be alive if the peasants hadn't told her about _______.
(a) The children.
(b) The drum.
(c) Eilif's death.
(d) The food.

13. What does Mother Courage not know at the end of the play?
(a) She is sick.
(b) She is a wanted woman.
(c) Her home's been destroyed.
(d) Eilif is dead.

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

15. Mother Courage says that she still has _______, which gives her hope to carry on.
(a) Swiss Cheese.
(b) A husband.
(c) Money.
(d) Eilif.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Mother Courage want peace?

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

3. Why do the soldiers come to the peasants' farmhouse late at night?

4. Who does Yvette marry?

5. How does the cook's mother die?

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