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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they do during the day?
(a) watch the jousting match from the window.
(b) make up alibis.
(c) pray.
(d) practice their performance.

2. Tobias and Springer cover their fears by:
(a) discussing the information they made known.
(b) relying on the leadership of Nicholas.
(c) saying it is an honor for the Lord to bring them to his castle.
(d) talking about the need to save Jane.

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

4. Nicholas decides to:
(a) remain a player.
(b) to flee the town.
(c) have himself excommunicated.
(d) return to his Bishop.

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

6. Why was the Justice come to the town?
(a) for the jousting tourney.
(b) he is investigating Lord de Guise.
(c) he is just passing throutgh.
(d) to investigate the murder of Thomas Wells.

7. Who had the players mentioned by name in their play?
(a) Lord de Guise.
(b) no one.
(c) Flint, the Lord's steward.
(d) Lord William.

8. After leaving the castle, Nicholas:
(a) goes to the church.
(b) goes to the house or John Lambert.
(c) goes to the inn.
(d) leaves the town.

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

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

11. In the play Thomas Wells says the purpose of the purse was to:
(a) implicate the Weaver.
(b) lure highway robbers.
(c) tempt the Monk.
(d) lure the girl.

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

13. Nicholas accompanies Martin to question:
(a) Jane.
(b) John Lambert.
(c) Lord de Guise
(d) the Monk.

14. Martin and Nicholas learn that two other prisoners are imprisoned for:
(a) kidnapping.
(b) accepting jobs with higher wages than Lord de Guise paid.
(c) heresy.
(d) murder.

15. Who is dying?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Jane.
(c) the Knight injured in the jousting match.
(d) a household servant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the audience appear before the beginning of the performance?

2. What question does the character of Thomas Wells raise?

3. What happens to Jane?

4. What do they rind in the chamber:

5. What does the Justice say of the Monk:

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