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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sister Aloysius react to Father Flynn's reason for meeting privately with Donald Muller?
(a) She is delighted.
(b) She is angry.
(c) She is relieved.
(d) She thinks he is lying.

2. How does Sister James say the students feel about Sister Aloysius?
(a) They seem terrified of her.
(b) They think she is very smart.
(c) They love her.
(d) They enjoy her sense of humor.

3. In Scene 3, what does Father Flynn say some of the boys have?
(a) Dirty hair.
(b) Dirty uniforms.
(c) Dirty fingernails.
(d) Dirty shoes.

4. What did Father O'Rourke tell the woman to do when she returned home after the second time he spoke with her?
(a) Give money to the church.
(b) Leave town.
(c) Tell the person she'd gossiped about what she'd done.
(d) Pick up the feathers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Christmas song does Sister Aloysius say is heretical?

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

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

5. While delivering a sermon in Scene 6, how many of his audience did Father Flynn say had gossiped?

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