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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sister Aloysius say will have its consequence tomorrow?
(a) Sister James' good teaching.
(b) Father Flynn's sermon.
(c) Every easy choice.
(d) Every good deed.

2. In his first sermon, what does Father Flynn say can be as powerful and sustaining as certainty?
(a) Hope.
(b) Faith.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Love.

3. What is happening to Sister Veronica?
(a) She is going deaf.
(b) She is dying of cancer.
(c) She is going blind.
(d) She is retiring.

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

5. In what year does the play take place?
(a) 1964.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1985.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sister James' class doing while she is with Sister Aloysius in Scene 2?

2. What happens after the sailor sets his course in the parable of the sailor?

3. In Scene 2, what does Sister Aloysius want Sister James to be with the children?

4. What happens to the ship in the parable of the sailor told by Father Flynn in Scene 1?

5. According to Sister Aloysius, what is a form of laziness?

(see the answer key)

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