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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Mother Courage returns to the farmhouse, who is standing around Mother Courage and Kattrin's body?
(a) The ghosts of her children.
(b) The peasants.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) The cook and chaplain.

3. Instead of being dead, Mother Courage insists that Kattrin is ______.
(a) Alive.
(b) Asleep.
(c) Injured.
(d) Pretending.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Before she leaves the peasants' farmhouse, what does Mother Courage get for Kattrin from the wagon?

2. Why couldn't Kattrin pull the cart by herself?

3. Why is Eilif being killed?

4. Where have we heard the song the soldiers sing at the very end of the play?

5. Why does the commander die?

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