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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. What is Sister James doing when Scene 7 begins?
(a) Teaching her class.
(b) Pruning a rosebush.
(c) Walking in the garden.
(d) Sitting on a bench.

2. What is Mrs. Muller's initial reaction to Sister Aloysius' when she is told Father Flynn may have made advances toward her son?
(a) She says she knew it.
(b) She is skeptical.
(c) She starts yelling.
(d) She cries.

3. What reason does Sister James give Father Flynn for her trouble sleeping?
(a) Bad dreams.
(b) Stress.
(c) Noisy birds.
(d) No time.

4. What does Sister Aloysius tell Father Flynn caused her to be watchful of him from the first day of school?
(a) He touched a boy's wrist.
(b) She'd heard bad things about him.
(c) He seemed sneaky.
(d) She doesn't trust men.

5. What is Sister Aloysius' response when Father Flynn asks her what he's done?
(a) She says he lied to her.
(b) She says he stole money.
(c) She says he gave wine to Donald.
(d) She says he drank the communion wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Scene 8, who does Father Flynn call?

2. When he comes on the scene in Scene 7, what does Father Flynn think he is interrupting?

3. What does Sister Aloysius confess to Sister James that she did not do?

4. Why does Mrs. Muller say Donald was sent to St. Nicholas instead of public school?

5. What does Mrs. Muller tell Sister Aloysius the world is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Father Flynn say is wrong about Sister Aloysius contacting his prior parish?

2. What reason does Mrs. Muller give Sister Aloysius for Donald drinking the altar wine?

3. How is the sermon Father Flynn preaches in Scene 6 symbolic?

4. What about the crow in Scene 7 reminds the audience of Sister Aloysius?

5. What does Father Flynn say Sister Aloysius is holding the school and parish back from?

6. In Scene 7, what indications does Sister James give that she takes Father Flynn's sermons very seriously?

7. What does Father Flynn seem to be most worried about if Sister Aloysius makes her accusations against him public?

8. When Father Flynn comes to Sister Aloysius' office in the second part of Scene 8, why does she tell him he can't come in?

9. What causes the woman in Father Flynn's sermon to feel guilty about gossiping?

10. In Father Flynn's sermon, what point is Father O'Rourke trying to make about gossip when he instructs the gossipy woman to pick up every last feather?

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