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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the chaplain need linen?
(a) To mend the tent.
(b) To sew with.
(c) To sleep on.
(d) To bandage the peasants.

2. What does Mother Courage compare mixing the slips of paper in the helmet to?
(a) A garden.
(b) A mother's womb.
(c) Dust in the wind.
(d) Clouds.

3. Why won't Mother Courage use her officers' shirts as bandages?
(a) Because they're expensive.
(b) Because she doesn't have very many.
(c) Because it's disrespectful.
(d) Because she has a low opinion of peasants.

4. How does the cook refer to Mother Courage when the chaplain insults her?
(a) His boss.
(b) His sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) His girlfriend.

5. Why does Eilif sing "The Song of the Wise Woman and the Soldier"?
(a) Because it's about him.
(b) Because it is the commander's favorite.
(c) To pass the time.
(d) Because his mother taught him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mother Courage see the chaplain?

2. Why won't the clerk go to the commander's funeral?

3. What is Swiss Cheese's real name?

4. Why is the young soldier complaining to the captain?

5. Why don't the peasants stay out of the line of fire when the Catholic soldiers attack their farm?

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