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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Scene III, who tells the others to break down the door of a woman's home? ("The Women Taken in Adultery")
(a) The accuser.
(b) A scribe.
(c) A young man.
(d) A pharisee.

2. Where does Scene I in "The Creation, and The Fall of Lucifer" open?
(a) The Tree of Knowledge.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Hell.
(d) Earth.

3. Where does Woman 3 threaten to hit the soldier? ("Herod the Great")
(a) In the knee.
(b) In the head.
(c) In the nose.
(d) In the mouth.

4. At the beginning of "The Creation of Adam and Eve", how many days has God completed working?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

5. What error was included in the first edition of A.C. Cawley's text?
(a) All texts were lost, and texts now are only reproductions.
(b) Only one pageant was burned in a fire.
(c) No texts were ever lost.
(d) Three texts were burned in a fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the messenger warning the audience about? ("Herod the Great")

2. What Finnish play does "Everyman" closely resemble?

3. Who is the first speaker in Scene I of "The Harrowing Hell"?

4. What device is defined as the linking of stanzas by means of verbal repetition?

5. Why does Noah's wife say that she would be no help to the building of the Ark? ("The Flood")

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