Mother courage And Her Children

Question 1

SCENE 1 –song

Answer 1

In rural Sweden in 1624, the Sergeant and the Recruiting Officer, are looking to recruit young men to join the Thirty Years’ War.

“The Song Of Mother Courage”

Question 2

SCENE 2 –song

Answer 2

Mother Courage has followed the Swedish army through Poland for nearly two years, where she will unexpectedly meet Eilif in the Swedish Commander’s tent.

Song- “The Fishwife and the Soldier.”

Question 3

SCENE 3 –songS

Answer 3

three years have passed; Mother Courage, Swiss Cheese, and Kattrin will become prisoners of war and Swiss Cheese will soon die.

Song- “Song of Fraternization.”
“ Song of the Hours”

Question 4

SCENE 4 –song

Answer 4

Mother Courage waits by an army tent, singing “The Song of the Great Capitulation.” A Clerk recognizes her as the woman who harbored the paymaster (Swiss Cheese).

Question 5

SCENE 5

Answer 5

After following the war across Europe for two more years, Mother Courage and Kattrin end up in a ruined Bavarian town. Catholic soldiers are doing a victory march in the background.

Question 6

SCENE 6– song

Answer 6

At the Catholic General Tilly’s funeral in 1632, Mother Courage will speak about heroism, the Chaplain will sing about the war, and Kattrin will get her red boots.

Song–Soldiers song

Question 7

SCENE 7 –song

Answer 7

Kattrin and the Chaplain pull the wagon, which is filthy and falling apart but full of new wares. Mother Courage walks alongside them and announces that nobody can spoil “her” war.

Song– song of Mother Courage Reprise 1

Question 8

SCENE 8– song

Answer 8

King Gustavus will die, Mother Courage will worry about her business collapsing, and Eilif will “perform one heroic deed too many” and perish.

Song– Song of Mother Courage Reprise 2

Question 9

SCENE 9– song

Answer 9

In these 16 years of war, half of Germany’s people have died, whether of violence, plague, or hunger. It’s 1634 in Bavaria’s Mountains.
Winter has hit hard and early, and Mother Courage’s business is struggling. The Cook will soon return home.

Song– song of the Wise and the Good

Question 10

SCENE 10– song

Answer 10

Mother Courage and Kattrin pull their wagon up to a well-to-do farmhouse. A voice sings inside, and they stop to listen.

Song– the song of shelter and security

Question 11

SCENE 11– song

Answer 11

When Catholics attack the Protestant city of Halle in 1636,

Kattrin will die, Mother Courage will go on alone, and the war still will not end. It is nighttime, and the tattered wagon is parked next to a farmhouse.

Song– Lyricless, Kattrins drumming

Question 12

SCENE 12– songS

Answer 12

Later that night,
Mother Courage sits with Kattrin’s body near their wagon. The Old Peasant and Old Peasant Woman advise Mother Courage to leave before the soldiers find them.

Song– Lullaby
Mother Courage Reprise 3