TEST -28- Mother Courage and Her Children, Riders to the sea

In Mother Courage and Her Children, as Scene 1 opens in Dalarna (Spring 1624), the Recruiting Officer and Sergeant meet Mother Courage while she is using which object to foretell her future?

• A bowl of water
• A helmet
• A drum
• A bag

In Mother Courage and Her Children, Brecht signals the outcome of scenes in advance through which epic theatre device?

• Silent tableaux
• Projected placards announcing the scene
• Blackouts with drumroll
• Offstage heralds

In Mother Courage and Her Children, Anna Fierling earns the nickname “Courage” for pushing her cart through bombardment to sell bread during the siege of which Baltic city?

• Riga
• Danzig
• Lübeck
• Stralsund

In Mother Courage and Her Children, Eilif’s first recruitment is secured while Mother Courage is distracted by a bargaining game; which two officers engineer his enlistment?

• Quartermaster and Lieutenant
• Recruiting Officer and Sergeant
• Captain and Chaplain
• Warrant Officer and Adjutant

In Mother Courage and Her Children, which child becomes paymaster’s clerk and is later arrested for hiding army funds?

• Eilif
• Swiss Cheese
• Kattrin
• The Cook

In Mother Courage and Her Children, Swiss Cheese refuses to betray the pay chest’s location and is executed; how does Mother Courage respond when shown a corpse to identify?

• Publicly wails and curses the army
• Bribes the guard and admits it
• Denies recognition to save herself and her cart
• Signs the receipt for the body

In Mother Courage and Her Children, which character most insistently spiritualizes war before gradually becoming dependent on Courage’s trade?

• Recruiting Officer
• Chaplain
• Cook
• Armourer

In Mother Courage and Her Children, Yvette Pottier’s sardonic number about intimacy across enemy lines is titled:

• Song of the Great Souls of the Earth
• Song of the Hours
• Song of Fraternization
• Song of the Great Capitulation

In Mother Courage and Her Children, Brecht repeatedly uses footwear as a motif tied to trade and longing; which specific item recurs?

• Red boots
• Black sabots
• Silver spurs
• Gilded slippers

In Mother Courage and Her Children, Eilif’s “heroic” cattle-raid later becomes a capital crime when the political weather changes; what does this reversal dramatize most directly?

• Absolutism of military law
• Opportunism of wartime morality
• Mercy of commanders
• Triumph of religion over force