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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prayer do the peasants pray when the soldiers are threatening them in their farmhouse?
(a) The Forgiveness Song.
(b) Hail Mary.
(c) Hallelujah.
(d) Our Father.

2. Why does Mother Courage leave to go to the market after peace is declared?
(a) To find Eilif.
(b) To sell her supplies.
(c) To chase after the chaplain.
(d) To send a letter.

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) Politely declines his offer.
(c) Abandons the cook.
(d) Steals the cook's money.

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

5. 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.

6. According to the cook, what kind of reward can one get for virtue?
(a) Money.
(b) A place in heaven.
(c) Good luck.
(d) None.

7. Why is Kattrin not in danger by going out alone?
(a) Everyone is looking out for her.
(b) She is married.
(c) She is tough.
(d) She is ugly.

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

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

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

11. Why hasn't the watchman sounded the alarm?
(a) He's lazy.
(b) He's been killed.
(c) He's not there.
(d) He was fired yesterday.

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

13. In her dreams, where does Mother Courage see herself pulling her cart?
(a) Through a battle.
(b) In a forest.
(c) Home.
(d) Through heaven and hell.

14. Where is the inn the cook inherited?
(a) Paris.
(b) Utrecht.
(c) Bavaria.
(d) Berlin.

15. What are people shouting at the beginning of Scene 8?
(a) "For he's a jolly good fellow".
(b) "War".
(c) "Peace".
(d) "Long live the King".

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the soldiers silence Kattrin?

2. How does the cook's mother die?

3. Why is Mother Courage so concerned about the war ending?

4. Mother Courage claims that Kattrin would still be alive if the peasants hadn't told her about _______.

5. How does Yvette look after all these years when she rejoins Mother Courage?

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