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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 does does Sister Aloysius say you're doing when you confront wrong doing?

2. What does Sister Aloysius say it is important for children to have?

3. What observation does Sister Aloysius make about Father Flynn's hands during their meeting in Scene 5?

4. What idea does Father Flynn have for a sermon while meeting with Sister Aloysius in Scene 5?

5. Who teaches the physical education and religion classes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Father Flynn say even in individual doubt, one is not alone?

2. In Scene 5, what makes Father Flynn have an idea to preach a sermon on intolerance?

3. In Scene 4, why is Sister Aloysius trying to protect the rosebush from frost even though there hasn't been any frost?

4. Why does Sister Aloysius say that it makes sense for Father Flynn to take interest in Donald Muller?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the end, do you think justice was served or was Father Flynn merely the subject of judgment? Why do you think this? Provide evidence from the play.

Essay Topic 2

Mrs. Muller's relationship with her husband is much like Sister Aloysius' relationship with the men in the church. Write a brief essay explaining how these relationships are similar. What does Sister Aloysius attempt to do that Mrs. Muller seems afraid to do? What is the result?

Essay Topic 3

Parables are used in a number of ways throughout the play. We see them in the sermons Father Flynn delivers and in the play itself. Describe what a parable is, identify at least two parables and the lessons they teach that were given in sermons during the play, and discuss how the play itself fits the model of a parable. What lesson is the play intended to teach?

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