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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 is the only power that the Dauphin has remaining in Scene 2?
(a) Royal.
(b) Financial.
(c) Military.
(d) The power over life and death.

2. In Scene 2, who is waiting for the arrival of the Dauphin?
(a) The Archbishop of Rheims and the Lord Chamberlain de la Tremouille.
(b) Dunois.
(c) Robert de Baudricourt and his steward.
(d) Joan.

3. After Joan speaks with the Dauphin and his advisers in Scene 2, what does the Dauphin do?
(a) He bans Joan from the castle.
(b) He dismisses the advisers from his presence.
(c) He asks his advisers their opinion.
(d) He retires to his room to consider what Joan has said.

4. How is Joan associated with Robert de Baudricourt in Scene 1?
(a) Her father owes allegiance to him.
(b) He is her uncle.
(c) She has heard about him in her brother's stories of war.
(d) She is a maid in his kitchen.

5. In Scene 2, what example is given of Joan's spiritual fortitude?
(a) Joan's dedication to seeing the Archbishop of Rheims crowned as king.
(b) The drowning of a man who refused to stop taking the Lord's name in vain.
(c) Joan's refusal to enter the cathedral in her armor.
(d) A vision of the Virgin Mary scene on a hillside next to Joan's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Scene 3, what is the goal of the French army?

2. How is the Dauphin described in Scene 2?

3. Where is the French army located in the beginning of Scene 3?

4. There is an officer in Scene 2 nicknamed "Bluebeard." Why is that his nickname?

5. What does Robert hope will help the troops with Joan's presence?

Short Essay Questions

1. After her victory at Orleans, what are Joan's intentions outlined in Scene 5?

2. In Scene 4, two men in an English army camp are having a discussion. Who are the men, and what are they discussing?

3. In Scene 2, why is the Dauphin called "ineffectual"?

4. After Joan identifies the true Dauphin in Scene 2, what does she tell the Dauphin, and how does he react?

5. In Scene 5, why doesn't Joan want to return home after her success at Orleans?

6. What is Joan's first reaction to the church officials' demands for her to recant at her trial?

7. In Scene 2, what do the Archbishop of Rheims, Lord Chamberlain de la Tremouille, Gilles de Rais, and the Dauphin do to try and trick Joan, and why?

8. Robert de Baudricourt is upset because there are no eggs for his breakfast. What does the steward tell Robert is the reason for the lack of eggs?

9. As Dunois and Joan make their way toward their destination late in Scene 3, what happens?

10. In Scene 6, what are the church officials willing to do if Joan will not recant her sins?

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