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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Sister Aloysius' function at the school?
2. What does Sister Aloysius say happened to her husband?
3. In Father Flynn's opening sermon, he mentions what event that happened the year before the play takes place?
4. In Scene 5, who serves the tea?
5. In Scene 4, what does Sister Aloysius say she thinks Monsignor Benedict does not know?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Scene 1, why does the sailor in Father Flynn's sermon feel despair when clouds cover the sky?
2. Why does Father Flynn compare the sailor's despair to a crisis of faith?
3. Why does Sister Aloysius say she cannot close her eyes to the situation with Father Flynn and Donald Muller?
4. 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?
5. Why is Sister Aloysius so certain that someone will hit Donald Muller?
6. What is Father Flynn's relationship with the boys on the basketball team like?
7. Why does Father Flynn say even in individual doubt, one is not alone?
8. In Scene 1, why does Father Flynn say a private calamity is worse than a public one?
9. What does Father Flynn tell the boys is different about shooting from the foul line versus the rest of the basketball game?
10. Why is Sister Aloysius' work with the rosebush similar to her work at the school?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Father Flynn and Sister Aloysius both claim to act in a manner that protects and benefits the students at St. Nicholas. However, the ways in which they go about achieving this goal differ greatly. Discuss how each character tries to help the students. Why do their actions put them in opposition with one another even though they both ultimately want the same thing?
Essay Topic 2
Scene 6 is extremely short, yet it serves an important purpose in the play. What is the purpose of Scene 6? Why does this brief scene work so well to achieve the author's purpose?
Essay Topic 3
Sister James has undergone a major change by the end of the play. She begins the play as an enthusiastic and compassionate teacher, but one who follows what others tell her. What has changed about her by the end of the play? How did these changes come about?
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