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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says he would be willing to kill someone for Everyman?

2. What is Goods’s response to Everyman’s accusation?

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

4. Which of the companions stays with Everyman to the very end?

5. How does Everyman feel when Kindred cannot go with him to talk with God?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes some of these friends to leave Everyman in his journey?

2. What are the seven Sacraments?

3. Who sent Goods to Earth?

4. Why are priests seen as so powerful?

5. What does Everyman beg Death for, and why?

6. How is this play introduced?

7. What does this play reveal about the status of society at this time in history?

8. Why is Goods not able to do what Everyman asked of him?

9. How is the gift from God for all men obtained?

10. What does Goods do when Everyman asks him for help?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Five Wits is one of the friends helping Everyman in his journey. How does he do this, and how is this help different than what is offered by the other friends?

Essay Topic 2

Goods was sent to Earth for a specific purpose. What was this purpose, and how did this affect Everyman in turn?

Essay Topic 3

The doctor has an interesting role in this play. What is this role, and how does he accomplish it?

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