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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When speaking about doubt in Scene 1, what does Father Flynn say is worse than a society sharing a sense of despair?
(a) A joy not shared.
(b) A private calamity.
(c) Lies.
(d) A society in fear.

4. In Scene 2, what does Sister Aloysius want Sister James to be with the children?
(a) Caring.
(b) Alert.
(c) Energetic.
(d) Easygoing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did William London's nose start to bleed?

2. In Scene 3, what does Father Flynn tell the boys to do after getting dressed?

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

4. In the opening scene of the play, Father Flynn describes the sailor's dilemma as what?

5. According to Sister Aloysius, what is satisfaction?

(see the answer key)

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