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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. According to Father Flynn, what do you do with your teammates during a basketball game?
(a) Stay out of the way.
(b) Play as an individual.
(c) Cooperate.
(d) Share the ball.

4. In Scene 4, what does Sister Aloysius say it is her job to do?
(a) To outswim the fishes.
(b) To top the hare in speed.
(c) To outshine the fox in cleverness.
(d) To beat the sheep in meakness.

5. Who teaches the physical education and religion classes?
(a) Sister Aloysius.
(b) Sister Veronica.
(c) Father Flynn.
(d) Sister James.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sister James' reaction to the reason Father Flynn gives for his private meeting with Donald Muller?

2. Why doesn't Sister James think anyone will hit Donald Muller?

3. In his first sermon, what does Father Flynn say can be as powerful and sustaining as certainty?

4. How does Father Flynn end his opening sermon?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Sister Aloysius anxious at the beginning of Scene 5?

2. What is Father Flynn's relationship with the boys on the basketball team like?

3. Why does Sister Aloysius say she cannot afford an excessively innocent teacher?

4. In Scene 2, what does Sister Aloysius refer to when she says that every easy choice today has a consequence tomorrow?

5. How do we know that this play is set in 1964?

6. According to Father Flynn, how did President Kennedy's death bring people together?

7. When Sister Aloysius says good teachers are never content, what does she mean?

8. In Scene 5, when Father Flynn says that the sound of the wind must have been very lonely in frontier days, under what circumstance does Sister Aloysius say it would be lonely?

9. In Scene 1, why does the sailor in Father Flynn's sermon feel despair when clouds cover the sky?

10. Why does Sister Aloysius think William London is headed for trouble?

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