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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act I, Scene 1 through Act I, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many students in Melchior and Moritz's class will be allowed to graduate to the next grade?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Seventy.

2. What excuse does Moritz give in order to escape the discussion about sex?
(a) He needs to talk to his father.
(b) He needs to go pray.
(c) He needs to find his girlfriend.
(d) He has too much homework.

3. How wide is Moritz's knowledge of maturation?
(a) He has already had sex.
(b) He knows more about sex than the rest of his class.
(c) He has read a book with a sex scene.
(d) He is completely ignorant.

4. What does Mrs. Bergmann wonder about Wendla in the first scene?
(a) She wonders what Wendla will look like in a few years.
(b) She wonders what sort of mother Wendla will make.
(c) She wonders if Wendla will survive her adolescence.
(d) She wonders if Wendla is aware of her changing body.

5. What is Eros according to Bentley?
(a) Sexual love.
(b) Romantic love.
(c) An instinct for death.
(d) An instinct for life.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first scene, what does Wendla wonder about her future?

2. What theatrical genre is combined with tragedy as part of this play's complexity?

3. What did people find so offensive about A Children's Tragedy when it was first written?

4. According to the summary, who is raped in A Children's Tragedy?

5. What is Thanatos according to Bentley?

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