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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what are the citizens talking?
(a) A large funeral mass to be held for the King's nephew.
(b) A feast held in honor of the King.
(c) A revolution that will end the lives of the nobility and the wealthy.
(d) Who will inherit the throne.

2. Ignatius says everything the King is and has ever been is nothing but what?
(a) Ugliness.
(b) A waste.
(c) Greed.
(d) Vanity.

3. What does Julian tell the Doctor he is expected to do, regarding the Prisoner's health?
(a) Propose how to destroy it completely.
(b) See if it is weakening.
(c) See how much longer it will hold up.
(d) Propose ways in which drastic improvements can be made.

4. What does the King hope that Ignatius will be able to do?
(a) Help him.
(b) Run away.
(c) Leave him.
(d) Stay in the monastery.

5. Who does Olivier think can sense "the bloodshed to come?"
(a) The Jewish smugglers.
(b) The princes.
(c) The guards.
(d) The pigeons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Doctor tell Julian he has chosen since he became an adult?

2. How has Simon come?

3. What does Ignatius say about how the terror and remorse the King is experiencing?

4. Whose grave does the King want to see?

5. How does the book the Monk reads describe the presence of the world?

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