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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lord de Guise wants:
(a) to see the play of the murder.
(b) the players to leave his domain.
(c) the girl freed.
(d) the girl killed.

2. Lord de Guise's daughter enters the room and:
(a) wants to see the play.
(b) asks for the priest.
(c) says her father has visitors.
(d) says it is time for dinner.

3. What is noticed about the body of the Monk?
(a) bruises on the body.
(b) knife in body.
(c) head smashed.
(d) bruises on the wrist.

4. What does Lord de Guise have with him?
(a) a falcon.
(b) a note pad.
(c) a book.
(d) his wife.

5. The financial proceeds from the performance were:
(a) about average.
(b) more than they ever earned from one play.
(c) low.
(d) the same as the last play.

6. Why couldn't Nicholas give the dying man absolution:
(a) he couldn't bring himself to do it.
(b) he wasn't sick enough.
(c) he could not repent his sins.
(d) the man was already dead.

7. What is the name of the woman to be hanged?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Elsie.
(c) Jane.
(d) Margaret.

8. What do they learn in the middle of the performance?
(a) the Monk has confessed.
(b) Jane is freed.
(c) Jane has been hanged.
(d) the Monk is dead.

9. When Nicholas walks through the town, he sees:
(a) two men fighting.
(b) a man who had frozen to death.
(c) a beggar fighting a dog for an egg.
(d) a woman lying in the snow.

10. What question does Lambert ask Nicholas:
(a) what is the name of the Justice.
(b) what does the Monk want.
(c) what does the Justice want.
(d) why is Nicholas lying.

11. What affliction does Jane suffer from:
(a) blind, deaf and mute.
(b) deaf and mute.
(c) dementia.
(d) blind.

12. Lambert tells Nicholas that:
(a) nothing.
(b) the money was hidden in the kitchen.
(c) his daughter hid the money in her room.
(d) the Monk didn't find money in the house.

13. During the play, Nicholas realizes that:
(a) they were doomed to be hanged.
(b) it was Lord de Guise who did not want the body seen.
(c) the players made a fatal error.
(d) Lord de Guise was the killer.

14. What did Springer and Straw learn at the castle?
(a) they support the woman.
(b) nothing.
(c) there is a great deal of concern about a miscarriage of justice.
(d) there is no interest in the case.

15. What alerted the players to the beginning of the jousting tourney?
(a) they saw the horses.
(b) voices in the courtyard.
(c) a blast of trupmpets.
(d) the guard told them.

Short Answer Questions

1. The players implicate:

2. Nicholas represents himself to John Lambert as:

3. Springer, as Thomas Wells, raises the question of:

4. How was the strangling of Thomas Wells portrayed:

5. According to Springer, who was traveling on the road on the day of the murder?

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