Mother Courage and Her Children Quizzes

Mother Courage and Her Children Quiz 1

1 What are the dates of the Second World War?
1939-1945

1939-1941

1940-1943

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

Germany

Sweden

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

Epic Theater

In-Yer-Face Theater

Post-War Theater
4 When was Brecht's own first major production of Mother Courage?
1939

1941

1937

1949
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?
Anna Fierling

Adolf Hitler

Anne Doubtfire

Kattrin Haupt
7 What is the name of Mother Courage's only daughter?
Kattrin

Eilif

Doris Lessing

Swiss Cheese
8 How did the protagonist get the nickname "Mother Courage"?
By selling her cart to save her son

By driving through a bombardment to sell some moldy bread

By singing numerous difficult songs in public

By being the only woman to help fight off a Catholic invasion
9 Which child is Mother Courage's favorite?
Kattrin

Swiss Cheese

The Cook

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

By reading his tea leaves

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

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

Eilif

Kattrin

The Chaplain
12 Who played Mother Courage in the 1949 production?
Diana Quick

Helene Weigel

Diana Rigg

Judi Dench
13 How many of Mother Courage's children die by the end of the play?
Only Eilif (1)

Swiss Cheese and Kattrin (2)

Eilif and Swiss Cheese (2)

All of them (3)
14 What is the Cook's real name?
Lamb

Pork

Chicken

Fish
15 What is the Cook's nickname as revealed by Yvette?
Smoking Steven

Peter the Puff

Smoked Lamb

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

Chaplain

Prostitute

Seamstress
17 What does Yvette Pottier wear that Kattrin later steals?
Soldier's Uniform

Lederhosen

Hat and red high-heeled boots

Scarf
18 How does Kattrin attempt to awake the townsfolk in Scene 11?
Shooting a harquebus

Shouting loudly

Chopping a tree with an axe

Banging a drum
19 What is Brecht's first name?
Robert

Bertholt

Bertolt

Bertie
20 When did Brecht die?
1945

1941

1950

1956
21 Which regiment is Courage following at the start of the play?
First Swedish

Second German

Ninth Augustan

Second Finnish
22 What is Eilif's surname?
Kojocki

Lojocki

Nojocki

Mojocki
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 pretending to be a soldier

By drawing a knife on the soldiers
24 What disability does Kattrin have?
She is deaf

She is dumb

She is blind

She cannot walk
25 How much does the Cook end up paying for Courage's capon in Scene 2?
Sixty Hellers

Forty dollars

One florin

Nine Guilders

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Which particular dramatic principal are you referring to?

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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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