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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is revealed about the Peasant Woman?
(a) She is Sigismund's mother and the Queen.
(b) She is Sigismund's sister.
(c) She is Sigismund's foster mother from the farm family with whom he lived early in his life.
(d) She is the King's sister.

2. What does the King say has eluded him?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Wealth.
(c) His son.
(d) Happiness.

3. What does Julian order be done to Sigismund?
(a) He be put to bed.
(b) He be dressed in his prisoner clothing and put back in his cell.
(c) He be dressed in royal clothes and that all other preparations for departure be completed.
(d) He be secretly brought into the castle.

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

5. After Julian sends Simon away, what does he discuss with Anton?
(a) Why the King always sends Simon.
(b) Whether Simon is telling the truth.
(c) Who is in charge of organizing the funeral.
(d) When the King will arrive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Olivier speak to the guards?

2. How has Simon come?

3. The Doctor that with each glance the Prisoner offers what?

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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