The Balcony | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Scenes 1, 2, 3, and 4

1. What is the Bishop doing in the beginning of Scene 1?

2. What is the Bishop wearing?

3. What does the Bishop repeatedly insist that the Young Woman do?

4. What does the Young Woman insist about her sins?

5. To whom does the Bishop question about the how and why of his becoming a bishop?

6. What happens when Irma leaves the Bishop?

7. Why does the Bishop believe Irma asks him to leave?

8. Why is it dangerous for people to be out in the streets?

9. Who is on his hands and knees in front of the Prisoner?

10. What does the Prisoner confess to the Judge?