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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Doctor have prepared if Sigismund should become unstable?
(a) A padded cell.
(b) A syringe filled with a sedative.
(c) A sponge that has been soaked in a powerful narcotic.
(d) A strait jacket.

2. What happens when Sigismund drinks the potion?
(a) He hallucinates.
(b) He vomits.
(c) He falls unconscious.
(d) He loses his mind.

3. What does Anton urge the Doctor to give the Prisoner?
(a) Food.
(b) A shot to sedate him.
(c) Handcuffs to wear around his wrists and ankles.
(d) Some medicine to calm him and make him happy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of what was the Prisoner convicted?

3. The King, Confessor and courtiers leave, with some of the courtiers doing what to Julian?

4. The conviction was the direct result of what before the Prisoner was born?

5. Who is a spiritual young man tortured and imprisoned by authority figures afraid of his power?

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