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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Knowledge assure Everyman of when he begins his journey?
(a) Others have followed this path
(b) There is a place for him in Heaven
(c) He will find happiness
(d) There is nothing to fear

2. What must man do to enter Heaven?
(a) Ask God for forgiveness
(b) Live a good life
(c) Be baptized
(d) Go to church

3. How does Everyman feel when Kindred cannot go with him to talk with God?
(a) Depressed
(b) Angry
(c) Confused
(d) Understanding

4. How does Knowledge respond at first when Everyman asks him for help?
(a) He yells at Everyman
(b) He is very rude
(c) He ignores Everyman
(d) He agrees to help

5. What help does God need?
(a) Creating a path of repentance
(b) Creating a new world
(c) Punishing the wicked
(d) Bringing men to reckoning

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

7. What do the new friends say they will NOT do?
(a) Stay with Everyman
(b) Defend Everyman
(c) Leave Everyman
(d) Persuade Everyman

8. Which of the companions stays with Everyman to the very end?
(a) Conscience
(b) Penance
(c) Fellowship
(d) Good Deeds

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

10. Why is there only one person who can really forgive Everyman?
(a) That is the one who paid the price for sin
(b) That is the one who watches all sins
(c) That is the law of Heaven
(d) That is the person who has God’s power

11. What does the messenger say happens to things of the world that make us happy?
(a) They fade
(b) They take away from God
(c) They turn to sin
(d) They make life worth living

12. What does Death say God has never done?
(a) Hurt Everyman
(b) Forgotten Everyman
(c) Given up on Everyman
(d) All of the above

13. What does Goods say caused Everyman to commit many of his sins?
(a) Lust
(b) Riches
(c) Confusion
(d) Distraction

14. Who rebukes Everyman for thinking priests are above someone?
(a) Good Deeds
(b) Five Wits
(c) Knowledge
(d) Beauty

15. How does Everyman feel when Fellowship says he would die for Everyman?
(a) He is angry
(b) He doesn’t believe him
(c) He feels lucky to have such a friend
(d) He offers to do the same for him

Short Answer Questions

1. Where can Goods help Everyman?

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

3. Where is Confession located?

4. What is the moral of the play?

5. Which of these is NOT one of the Sacraments?

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