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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ten Notes: 6, God the Father, Father the God through 10, The Question of Style.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of story is A Children's Tragedy?
(a) Morality play.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Coming-of-age.
(d) Theater of Cruelty.

2. Who keeps Melchior from committing suicide?
(a) Wendla.
(b) A masked man.
(c) Ernst.
(d) Moritz.

3. According to Bentley, what event in Wedekind's life influences the plot of A Children's Tragedy?
(a) His girlfriend's miscarriage.
(b) Coming out to his family.
(c) A double suicide at the author's school.
(d) His sister ran away from home.

4. What is a Moritat?
(a) A short poem.
(b) A story written backwards.
(c) A short statement.
(d) A postscript.

5. What form does the play evolve into?
(a) Absurdism.
(b) Expressionism.
(c) Realism.
(d) Experimental.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the rape scene censored in reissues of A Children's Tragedy?

2. In what decade did Wedekind write A Children's Tragedy?

3. What sort of characters are the women in A Children's Tragedy?

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

5. How does Bentley describe Moritz and Melchior in relationship to each other?

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