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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the chaplain call the cook?
(a) A Don Juan.
(b) A fool.
(c) A wizard.
(d) A coward.

2. A soldier tells Kattrin if she comes down from the roof and takes them to her mother, they will ______________.
(a) Spare her mother.
(b) Kill the cattle.
(c) Find her a new family.
(d) Give her money.

3. 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.

4. Why should the cook talk quietly when he is talking to Mother Courage about the inn?
(a) Because he has an annoying voice.
(b) Because Kattrin is trying to sleep.
(c) So he doesn't wake the parson.
(d) So Kattrin can't hear him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Mother Courage, Kattrin, and the cook stop at the parson's house?

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

3. How does Kattrin react to the soldiers' attempts to silence her?

4. Why doesn't Mother Courage want peace?

5. Instead of being dead, Mother Courage insists that Kattrin is ______.

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