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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens after the sailor sets his course in the parable of the sailor?
(a) A ship comes along.
(b) The sky clouds up.
(c) The raft sinks.
(d) He is eaten by a shark.

2. According to Sister Aloysius, what is satisfaction?
(a) Evil.
(b) What brought the cat back.
(c) A virtue.
(d) A vice.

3. In the sermon delivered in Scene 1, for how long is the sailor at sea without a navigational aid?
(a) 40 days.
(b) 20 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) One month.

4. In Father Flynn's opening sermon, he mentions what event that happened the year before the play takes place?
(a) France performs an underground nuclear test.
(b) President Kennedy's assassination.
(c) The Supreme Court's Miranda decision.
(d) The release of the first Beatles album.

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?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Everyone else.
(c) Your neighbor.
(d) You.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Father Flynn end his opening sermon?

2. What does Sister Aloysius say it is important for children to have?

3. As the days roll on, what does the sailor in Father Flynn's sermon start to have?

4. In what year does the play take place?

5. In the parable of the sailor, what is the raft made of?

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