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

2. How does the Prisoner respond when Anton calls him by name?
(a) Yes.
(b) He begins banging the cage with his fists.
(c) He screams.
(d) He does not respond.

3. Of what does Pancras remind Olivier?
(a) He is to only refer to the Prisoner as a prince.
(b) The prince is a kind man.
(c) The prince should be allowed to escape.
(d) He is never to refer to the Prisoner as a prince.

4. What does the letter to Julian contain?
(a) The news that the King wants the Prisoner removed from the Tower.
(b) The news that the King is coming for a visit.
(c) A note from the King thanking him for his birthday gift.
(d) 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.

5. How does Olivier speak about violence to come?
(a) With fear.
(b) With anger.
(c) With pleasure.
(d) With sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Doctor speak about in regards to the Prisoner?

2. Who does Olivier think can sense "the bloodshed to come?"

3. For whom does the Doctor ask?

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

5. Of what was the Doctor accused based on the Prisoner's survival?

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