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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Knowledge offer to do for Everyman?
(a) Guide him on his journey
(b) Give him a lecture
(c) Give him money
(d) Distract Death

2. What helps Everyman to lose desire for something as he begins his journey?
(a) His broader perspective
(b) The assurance from Knowledge
(c) His new friends
(d) The Confession

3. How does Everyman feel about Good Deeds speaking for him?
(a) Relieved
(b) Annoyed
(c) Unworthy
(d) Grateful

4. Why does Everyman tell Death it is unfair for him to leave now?
(a) He is too young
(b) He was never warned
(c) His life has been kind to him
(d) His family needs him

5. How many are hurt each time Goods succeeds?
(a) 10,000
(b) 100,000
(c) 1,000
(d) 100

6. Where can Goods help Everyman?
(a) None of the above
(b) This world
(c) Hell
(d) Heaven

7. Why does Everyman ask Jesus for help?
(a) Because he doesn’t trust his Priest
(b) Because he is reminded of his past
(c) Because his friends are leaving him
(d) Because he is ready for his reckoning

8. What does Everyman think after talking to Kindred and Fellowship?
(a) He is a lucky man
(b) He can’t believe he considered them friends
(c) He is more scared than ever
(d) He sees the truth of things now

9. Where is Confession located?
(a) Heaven
(b) Everyman’s mind
(c) A church
(d) A school

10. Who does God say will partake of his gift?
(a) The sinners
(b) The righteous few
(c) Everyman
(d) His children

11. Who is the third friend to leave Everyman when he is ready for his reckoning?
(a) Strength
(b) Goods
(c) Five Wits
(d) Discernment

12. When does Everyman say he will call on his new friends?
(a) At the reckoning
(b) When he is weakened
(c) When he needs them
(d) When Death returns

13. Who says they will be willing to seek out revenge for Everyman?
(a) Kindred
(b) Fellowship
(c) Five Wits
(d) Goods

14. What question does Death have for Everyman?
(a) How could you forget?
(b) What right have you?
(c) Have you forgotten your maker?
(d) Where have you gone?

15. What do people on Earth spend their time thinking about, according to this play?
(a) Religion
(b) Sex
(c) Friends
(d) Riches

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Everyman need Fellowship to prove?

2. How does Knowledge respond at first when Everyman asks him for help?

3. Who is the third friend Everyman goes to for help?

4. Why does Death mock Everyman when he prays to God to avoid Death?

5. What sin are some priests said to have committed?

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