Spring Awakening Quizzes

Spring Awakening Quiz 1

By China Millman · Edited by Jordan Berkow · Last reviewed April 30, 2008

1 According to Wedekind, "Spring Awakening" was written during what time span?

1900-1901

1890-1891

1910-1911

1880-1881
2 Moritz refers to his life as a "Charybdis of superstition." Charybdis is a:

volcano

whirlpool

half man/half fish

donkey
3 In dream #1, Melchior beats his dog. How is this dream ultimately realized?

Moritz beats Martha

Melchior beats Moritz

Martha beats Wendla

Melchior beats Wendla
4 George Zirschnitz had a Freudian (Oedipus-like) dream. He dreamt about his...

mother

father

brother

friend
5 Wendla reverts to a fantasy story about a man as big as three horses, who disappears around the corner. This recalls her mother's story about what?

a horse

a monkey

a stork

a bull
6 Who does Wendla use as a weapon to force her mother to tell her about the facts of life?

Melchior

the doctor

a chimney-sweep

her sister, Ina
7 What, according to Wendla's mother, must exist in a husband/wife relationship in order to have a child?

ego

pride

love

sex
8 When Hanschen realizes that his photos are incapable of fulfilling his sexual urges, he:

gives them to friends

tears them up

flushes them down the toilet

burns them
9 Hanschen ultimately finds his destiny in a mature relationship with Arabella, the Spaniard.

This statement is correct

This statement comes from Wendla's imagination

This statement comes from Melchior's imagination

This statement is incorrect
10 Moritz requests money from Mrs. Gabor for passage to:

Spain

France

England

America
11 The funeral scene presents the adults as being:

indifferent

curious

compassionate

concerned
12 Who possesses the pistol Moritz used for his suicide?

Wendla

Melchior

Thea

Ilse
13 Who begs for that same pistol?

Ilse

Wendla

Theo

Martha
14 Who is Mother Schmidt?

a therapist

an angel of death

a midwife who also performs abortions

none of the above
15 Who or what does the masked man represent?

life force

the Rektor

Melchior's uncle

atonement for one's sins
16 Who is the masked man's adversary in the graveyard scene?

Melchior's mother

Moritz

Moritz's mother

the Rektor
17 Where does the masked man appear?

at Moritz's funeral

in the woods, accompanying Ilse

at the Reformatory

in the graveyard
18 The other character that can be likened to the masked man is:

Martha

Wendla

Ilse

Moritz
19 "Mama pulled me out of bed by my plait. Mama comes to pray with us every evening." This quote is spoken by:

Wendla

Martha

Ilse

Thea
20 The stage directions for the graveyard scene state: "A bright November night." We assume that this scene takes place on November 1st because it is:

Advent

Ascension Day

All Soul's Day

Candlemas
21 The girls (Martha, Wendla, Thea) would all prefer to have boys when they grow up because:

boys have more independence

actually, they would prefer to have girls

boys are smarter

boys are better-looking
22 "Or perhaps I'd better ask the chimney-sweep." This line is spoken by:

Martha

Wendla

Moritz

Hanschen
23 When Moritz allows his imagination to take him into the world of fantasy, he relates a fairy tale to Melchior. With whom does he identify in the fairy tale?

the queen

Melchior

the mother

the king
24 The two complete scenes which were required to be deleted before the play could be performed in England in 1963 were:

the graveyard scene and the Mother Schmidt scene

the graveyard scene and the vineyard scene

the vineyard scene and the Reformatory scene

the Reformatory scene and the Mother Schmidt scene
25 "I'd deserve to be put in prison - to have you taken away from me." This quote is spoken by:

Melchior's father

Wendla's mother

Melchior's mother

Moritz's father

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