Mother Courage and Her Children Quizzes

Mother Courage and Her Children Quiz 1

1 What are the dates of the Second World War?
1939-1941

1939-1945

1940-1943

1612-1616
2 Where was Brecht when he wrote Mother Courage and Her Children?
Sweden

Switzerland

Austria

Germany
3 What was the theater form that Brecht founded?
Dramatic Theater

Post-War Theater

Epic Theater

In-Yer-Face Theater
4 When was Brecht's own first major production of Mother Courage?
1939

1949

1941

1937
5 During which war is Mother Courage and Her Children set?
The Crimean War

The Thirty Years' War

The First World War

The Second World War
6 What is Mother Courage's real name?
Anne Doubtfire

Kattrin Haupt

Anna Fierling

Adolf Hitler
7 What is the name of Mother Courage's only daughter?
Doris Lessing

Eilif

Kattrin

Swiss Cheese
8 How did the protagonist get the nickname "Mother Courage"?
By driving through a bombardment to sell some moldy bread

By being the only woman to help fight off a Catholic invasion

By selling her cart to save her son

By singing numerous difficult songs in public
9 Which child is Mother Courage's favorite?
Swiss Cheese

Eilif

Kattrin

The Cook
10 How does Mother Courage predict the Sergeant's death in the play's first scene?
By seeing into the future

By making him draw a black cross on a piece of paper

By reading his tea leaves

By finding a mystic symbol drawn on his uniform
11 Which of Mother Courage's children works as a paymaster?
Kattrin

The Chaplain

Swiss Cheese

Eilif
12 Who played Mother Courage in the 1949 production?
Judi Dench

Helene Weigel

Diana Quick

Diana Rigg
13 How many of Mother Courage's children die by the end of the play?
Swiss Cheese and Kattrin (2)

Eilif and Swiss Cheese (2)

All of them (3)

Only Eilif (1)
14 What is the Cook's real name?
Fish

Pork

Chicken

Lamb
15 What is the Cook's nickname as revealed by Yvette?
Smoked Lamb

Peter the Puff

Smoking Steven

Puff the Magic Dragon
16 What is Yvette Pottier's occupation?
Cook

Prostitute

Chaplain

Seamstress
17 What does Yvette Pottier wear that Kattrin later steals?
Hat and red high-heeled boots

Lederhosen

Scarf

Soldier's Uniform
18 How does Kattrin attempt to awake the townsfolk in Scene 11?
Shooting a harquebus

Shouting loudly

Banging a drum

Chopping a tree with an axe
19 What is Brecht's first name?
Bertolt

Robert

Bertie

Bertholt
20 When did Brecht die?
1941

1956

1950

1945
21 Which regiment is Courage following at the start of the play?
Second German

Second Finnish

First Swedish

Ninth Augustan
22 What is Eilif's surname?
Mojocki

Lojocki

Kojocki

Nojocki
23 How does Courage protect her children in the first scene?
By running away in her cart

By lying about their places of birth

By drawing a knife on the soldiers

By pretending to be a soldier
24 What disability does Kattrin have?
She is dumb

She cannot walk

She is deaf

She is blind
25 How much does the Cook end up paying for Courage's capon in Scene 2?
Sixty Hellers

One florin

Forty dollars

Nine Guilders

Mother courage in relation to Dramatic principle?

Which particular dramatic principal are you referring to?

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Novel title, please? This question does not connect to the novel, Mother Courage and Her Children.

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Mother Courage and Her Children is set during the Thirty Years' War, but it was written either shortly before or during the early years of the Second World War. Hitler's warmongering intentions had become clear to many Germans by the mid-1930s,...

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