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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mr. Peachum's fee for services?
(a) 10 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 90 percent.
(d) 30 percent.

2. What does Polly request the thugs do while she sings in Act One?
(a) Dance.
(b) Pretend to pay her money.
(c) Pretend they're customers at a bar.
(d) Pretend they're beggars.

3. Who sings the prologue of The Threepenny Opera?
(a) Macheath.
(b) Jenny.
(c) Polly.
(d) The Ballad Singer.

4. Which is NOT one of the soldier's names in the song Macheath and Brown sing at the feast?
(a) Jim.
(b) John.
(c) Mackie.
(d) Georgie.

5. Which character says, "You get that every day at Mac the Knife's. You've landed in the honey pot all right."
(a) Matthew.
(b) Ned.
(c) Filch.
(d) Jake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Macheath seduce two sisters under the age of consent?

2. What does Mac order the legs cut off from in Act One Scene Two?

3. What is the setting of the opening of Act One Scene Two?

4. When does Mrs. Peachum tell Mr. Peachum Polly gets married?

5. Who sings the Ballad of Sexual Obsession?

(see the answer key)

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