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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theatrical genre is combined with tragedy as part of this play's complexity?
(a) Comedy.
(b) Theater of cruelty.
(c) Theater of the poor.
(d) Absurdism.

2. What birthday is being celebrated for Wendla in Act I, Scene 1?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Fifteen.

3. For how long may Wendla wear her old dress?
(a) One more year.
(b) One more week.
(c) One more summer.
(d) One more month.

4. How does Moritz discover the information in Act 1, Scene 4 that cheers him up?
(a) He asks the teacher's assistant for help.
(b) He asks his teacher.
(c) He looks his name up in the teacher's book.
(d) He overhears his teacher talking to another professor about him.

5. What does Wendla ask of Melchior at the end of Act 1?
(a) She asks him to make love to her.
(b) She asks him to beat her.
(c) She asks him to run away to Berlin with her.
(d) She asks him if he would want to marry her one day.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To whom does Bentley relate the masked man, especially in relation to summary of morality?

4. What is Melchior's relationship to Moritz?

5. What is considered the most sexual scene in A Children's Tragedy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Moritz believe is the purpose of his school's exams?

2. What is significant about the number sixty in relation to Moritz?

3. What conflicts does Bentley discuss were essential to Wedekind during the writing of "Spring Awakening"? Why?

4. What thought does Wendla have that offends her mother? Where does it come from?

5. How was "Spring Awakening" treated in Germany during both World Wars?

6. Why was this play frequently repressed after the initial publication?

7. Why did Martha's parents rip her nightgown from her?

8. Why is this play described as "coming-of-age?"

9. What are some of the main philosophical influences and allusions in A Children's Tragedy?

10. In the introduction, why is this play deemed as widely disliked by feminists?

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