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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mother Courage doing while she talks to the chaplain at the beginning of Scene 6?
(a) Braiding Kattrin's hair.
(b) Counting inventory.
(c) Cooking dinner.
(d) Cleaning.

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

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

4. How does Mother Courage feel about moving on?
(a) She's sad.
(b) She'll manage.
(c) She's happy.
(d) She's reluctant.

5. The first soldier threatens that he will kill the cattle if the peasants are not ______.
(a) Arrogant.
(b) Nice.
(c) Courageous.
(d) Reasonable.

6. Who does Yvette marry?
(a) The commander.
(b) A colonel.
(c) A salesman.
(d) A low-ranking soldier.

7. Why has the cook come back to Mother Courage when peace is declared?
(a) He loves her.
(b) He's a spy.
(c) He is broke.
(d) He is lonely.

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

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

10. 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.

11. What song does the cook sing to the parson?
(a) The Song of the Great Souls of the Earth.
(b) The Song of the Wise Woman and the Soldier.
(c) The Song of Great Capitulation.
(d) The Song of Mother Courage.

12. Why would Kattrin be bad for business at the inn?
(a) She is scarred.
(b) She is clumsy.
(c) She steals.
(d) She is a bad dancer.

13. How does the cook's mother die?
(a) Execution.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Old age.
(d) Cancer.

14. What does Mother Courage sing to Kattrin's body?
(a) A dance song.
(b) A lullaby.
(c) A prayer.
(d) A war song.

15. According to the cook, what kind of life is a cook's life?
(a) A dog's life.
(b) A good life.
(c) A prosperous life.
(d) A lonely life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unlikely thing does the chaplain claim one can find in war?

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

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

4. What are people shouting at the beginning of Scene 8?

5. Why won't the clerk go to the commander's funeral?

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