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

2. How was the strangling of Thomas Wells portrayed:
(a) it was only alluded to.
(b) very realistically.
(c) verbally.
(d) in dumb stage.

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

4. What other question is raised in the play?
(a) why was the boy on the road.
(b) why was the Monk on the road.
(c) why was the woman on the road.
(d) nothing.

5. Why does Lambert say he is hated:
(a) he is poor.
(b) he doesn't know why.
(c) he refuses to work for the Monk.
(d) he travels around speaking against the rich and priests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lambert say about his daughter:

2. After leaving the room, Nicholas:

3. What happens to Jane?

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

5. The play is ended by:

Short Essay Questions

1. What do they learn about Lord de Guise?

2. What does examining the body of Thomas Wells reveal?

3. When Martin begins the Prologue to the play, what does he explain to the audience?

4. What are the players allowed to bring to the castle?

5. What does Nicholas decide about returning to the church?

6. Nicholas thinks over the events of the last few days. What does he blame for their predicament?

7. What does Nicholas learn about the activities of John Lambert?

8. Why does Nicholas misrepresent himself as a representative of the King's Justice?

9. Some of the players want to leave after the performance but Martin wants to stay. Why?

10. What happens in the show when Thomas Wells was portrayed as following the woman to her house?

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