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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Everyman feel when he finishes his sacraments?
(a) Wary
(b) Exhausted
(c) Worried
(d) Excited

2. Who is the last character to speak in this play?
(a) The angel
(b) The author
(c) The messenger
(d) The doctor

3. Who hears someone making way for Everyman when he dies?
(a) Five Wits
(b) Knowledge
(c) Discernment
(d) Strength

4. Why does Goods say he was sent to Earth?
(a) To help men
(b) To glorify God
(c) To deceive men
(d) To bring pleasure to men

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

6. Who gives the priests their power?
(a) The Spirit
(b) Fellowship
(c) God
(d) Death

7. What did this play teach people about?
(a) The Atonement
(b) The law of the Tithe
(c) Salvation
(d) Proper friends

8. What kind of play is this?
(a) Melodramatic Play
(b) Rhyming Play
(c) Morality Play
(d) Religious Play

9. What does Death tell Everyman when he is asked to do something after the reckoning?
(a) There is no reason for him to fret
(b) He has no authority
(c) No mortal can ever return
(d) He will be there for him at every step

10. Who does the messenger talk to at the beginning of the play?
(a) Everyman
(b) God
(c) Himself
(d) The audience

11. What is Goods’s response to Everyman’s accusation?
(a) Everyman brought it on himself
(b) He is not finished yet
(c) His master is pleased
(d) He can do no more

12. Which of these is NOT one of the Sacraments?
(a) Marriage
(b) Baptism
(c) Cleansing and Anointing
(d) The Blood and the Flesh

13. Why does Everyman ask Good Deeds for help?
(a) She is his only hope
(b) God would like this
(c) She hasn’t left him
(d) Death tells him to

14. What kind of people do some priests set bad examples for?
(a) Women
(b) Sinners
(c) Children
(d) The righteous

15. Who is the first person to speak in this play?
(a) God
(b) Everyman
(c) Death
(d) The Messenger

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Everyman have to face God?

2. How did most people at the time of this play view God?

3. Who is the third friend to leave Everyman when he is ready for his reckoning?

4. Who asks about reincarnation in the play?

5. Why were the people given another chance?

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