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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 are the shepherds doing as Mak enters the scene? ("The Second Shepherds' Pageant")
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Praying.
(c) Singing.
(d) Laughing.

2. How old is Jesus when Herod finds out about his birth? ("Herod the Great")
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

3. What does the Messenger tell the soldiers put on ? ("Herod the Great")
(a) The chain-mail dress of Herod.
(b) Only the cloth of Herod.
(c) The crest of the king.
(d) Full Armor.

4. What does "Natumque pariet" mean? ("Herod the Great")
(a) Bear a son.
(b) Named by prophets.
(c) Papers of nature.
(d) Naure will not offend.

5. Why does Noah's wife say that she would be no help to the building of the Ark? ("The Flood")
(a) She needed to cook.
(b) Women are weak.
(c) She needed to sew.
(d) She needed to prepare for the journey.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Scene II, where are Joseph and Mary? ("The Annunciation")

2. What does Eve say she and Adam would be if they ate the apple? ("The Fall of Man")

3. In all "what" is The Flood dramatized in? (Introduction to "The Flood")

4. What does Cain offer as a sacrifice to God in Scene III? ("Cain and Abel")

5. Most of what from the original play was preserved for the text?

Short Essay Questions

1. From where did the editor obtain a copy of the manuscript to include "The Annunciation" in his collection of pageants?

2. What lie does Mak create to hide the fact that he has stolen a sheep?

3. What did the Introduction state was the "unity of biblical history"?

4. What does Herod order to insure that the Jesus does not make it to adulthood?

5. What "justifies" Lucifer's fall from Heaven?

6. According to the introduction, what is the importance of "The Fall of Lucifer"?

7. How are the "Shepherds' Pageants" distinguished from the rest of the Towneley cycle?

8. According to the Preface, why did A.C. Cawley choose the collection of plays that he did as a representative collection of medieval biblical pageants?

9. For what other writings is the author of the "Shepherds' Pageants" responsible?

10. In "Abraham and Isaac", why does God call for the sacrifice of Isaac?

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