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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. In the distance, what are heard?
(a) Voices chanting for the King.
(b) People screaming.
(c) Several arguments.
(d) Voices singing in Latin.

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.
(a) The Christ.
(b) The Buddha.
(c) The Zeus.
(d) The Czar.

3. What does Ignatius say about how the terror and remorse the King is experiencing?
(a) The king does not deserves these.
(b) He should feel it more often.
(c) They are part of the true face of God, the spirit of judgment. The King cries for help.
(d) They are sad but difficult to change.

4. The King reminds him that everything he did to his son, Sigismund, he did on who's advice?
(a) Ignatius'.
(b) The prophecy's.
(c) Julian's.
(d) His wife's.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the King say has eluded him?

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

3. What does the King hope that Ignatius will be able to do?

4. How does Ignatius respond when the Young Monk reads a quote about an innocent man being condemned?

5. Over what do Olivier, Pancras and Andrew argue?

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