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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who passes by the farmhouse and Mother Courage follows and exits for the last time?
(a) A regiment.
(b) Some priests.
(c) A man she recognizes.
(d) A family.

3. What instrument does Kattrin use in Scene 11?
(a) A guitar.
(b) A flute.
(c) A drum.
(d) A tambourine.

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

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

6. Why can't the soldiers chop more wood?
(a) Their axe is broken.
(b) Their arms hurt.
(c) There is no more wood.
(d) They only have one axe.

7. Mother Courage says it's _______ everyone is missing the commander's funeral.
(a) A pity.
(b) An honor.
(c) Understandable.
(d) A disgrace.

8. 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) Steals the cook's money.
(d) Abandons the cook.

9. How long ago had the war stopped when Mother Courage's group is informed that peace is declared?
(a) Just this morning.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) A few days.

10. What is the background noise at the beginning of Scene 12?
(a) Crying families.
(b) Gunfire.
(c) Peasants' songs.
(d) Troops drums.

11. 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 has food.
(d) He will give them directions.

12. How does Yvette look after all these years when she rejoins Mother Courage?
(a) Old.
(b) Strong.
(c) Fat.
(d) Beautiful.

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

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

15. Why does the chaplain hesitate to put on his pastor's coat?
(a) He doesn't want to go back to religious life.
(b) It smells bad.
(c) He might be seen as the antichrist.
(d) He thinks it's cursed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mother Courage when the soldiers come to the farmhouse?

2. In the chaplain's opinion, wars can look forward to ________ futures.

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

4. Why hasn't the watchman sounded the alarm?

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

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