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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the poor need courage?
(a) They're weak.
(b) They're going to fight.
(c) They're doomed.
(d) They're lost.

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

3. Why does the commander die?
(a) He was in the front lines.
(b) He was assassinated.
(c) He killed himself.
(d) It was an accident.

4. What does the voice from the house offer to the cook?
(a) Clean clothes.
(b) Advice.
(c) A place to sleep.
(d) Soup.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Eilif being killed?

2. What does Mother Courage promise to Kattrin when there is peace?

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

4. In Scene 10, Mother Courage and Kattrin stop at a ______ to listen to a woman sing.

5. What is Mother Courage's last line?

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