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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the letter to Julian contain?
(a) The news that the King is coming for a visit.
(b) A note from the King thanking him for his birthday gift.
(c) The news that the King's nephew has been killed in a riding accident and that the King's chief advisor has suddenly become a monk.
(d) The news that the King wants the Prisoner removed from the Tower.

2. What does the Doctor think about the Prisoner's soul?
(a) It is going to Hell.
(b) It is weak.
(c) It is noble and predestined for high distinction.
(d) It is dying.

3. What is the setting of this scene?
(a) In the King's private rooms.
(b) In a room in the tower.
(c) In the dungeon.
(d) In a field behind the tower.

4. What does the Doctor speak about in regards to the Prisoner?
(a) How he is to take him away from this prison and protect him.
(b) How he has always wanted to protect the prisoner.
(c) How he is to murder the prisoner in his cell.
(d) How he was given orders to keep the Prisoner hidden from the world and therefore hid him with the farm family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Anton assure the Doctor about Sigismund?

2. Specific parallels to _____ story appear throughout the play, making thematic points about the importance of integrity, faith and tensions between spiritual and earthly power.

3. How has Simon come?

4. At the sound of a muffled banging, what does Olivier do?

5. Who does Anton say the Prisoner sometimes flies into a rage and attacks?

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