Doubt | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Scene 1

1. In what year does the play take place?

1964.

2. In Father Flynn's opening sermon, he mentions what event that happened the year before the play takes place?

President Kennedy's assassination.

3. In Father Flynn's sermon on doubt, what did he say binds people together?

Hopelessness.

4. When speaking about doubt in Scene 1, what does Father Flynn say is worse than a society sharing a sense of despair?

A private calamity.

5. What does Father Flynn say is on the other side of the glass from happy, untroubled people when he delivers the sermon in the opening scene?

You.

6. In Scene 1, what does Father Flynn say that only God knows about the isolated affected people?

Their pain.

7. When the isolated affected people in Father Flynn's opening sermon ask God for help, what is His reply?

Silence.

8. What happens to...
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