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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. What do Martin and Nicholas talk about?

2. What does Martin propose?

3. Who found the body of Thomas Wells:

4. What role did Brendan play better than anyone?

5. Why did Nicholas leave the woman's house so quickly?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the duties to which the Bishop had assigned Nicholas?

2. What does Martin feel are problems for the players?

3. Why do the players at first object to doing a play about a real life event?

4. Why does Stephen get into a fight with the jongleurs?

5. Why is Nicholas so pleased with himself?

6. What is the subject of the Play of Adam?

7. What does the group find strange about the circumstances surrounding Thomas Wells' death?

8. With whom do Martin and Tobias arrange the funeral of Brendan?

9. Why did Nicholas ask to join the group?

10. Where is the group of traveling players traveling to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the King's Justice? Why does he appear in the town? Do you think Nicholas was right to trust him after he escaped from the castle? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What are the guilds? Why do they present a problem for the players? What ides does Martin have to help the players?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the setting for the novel. What are the characteristics of fourteenth century England? Comment on the living conditions of the people.

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