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

2. Who tells Everyman about the great power of certain figures?
(a) Discretion
(b) Good Deeds
(c) Five Wits
(d) Creation

3. What keeps Everyman from fully trusting others?
(a) His friends keep leaving him
(b) He thinks everyone might be like him
(c) He knows they are mortal
(d) He hasn’t known very many good people

4. What does Everyman do when he learns who Death is?
(a) Bargains with him
(b) Runs from him
(c) Scares him
(d) Bribes him

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Everyman call himself after leaving Kindred?

2. What does God say is his real gift to man?

3. Who hears someone making way for Everyman when he dies?

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

5. What does Goods say caused Everyman to commit many of his sins?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does God call on death?

2. What does Everyman learn when some of his friends leave during his journey?

3. What are some of the reasons Everyman gives for Death’s visit to be unfair?

4. What does Death say Everyman was crazy to do?

5. How does Death feel about Everyman when they first meet?

6. What is the structure of this play?

7. Who sent Goods to Earth?

8. What does Death say when he learns Everyman hopes to come back to Earth after his death?

9. Why is Kindred not able to do what Everyman asked of him?

10. How is Everyman described when we first meet him in the play?

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