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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In front of the tower, why does Olivier bully and berate a young Recruit?
(a) The Recruit argued with Olivier.
(b) For not responding properly to his petty orders.
(c) The Recruit was late to his post.
(d) He is shy.

2. What does the King instruct the Monk to tell Ignatius?
(a) To remove the Beggar from the streets.
(b) To clean up and feed the beggar.
(c) That a man in great distress has come with an urgent petition.
(d) To ignore the Beggar, who does not seem to want help.

3. How does Sigismund make Anton angry?
(a) He sees Sigismund trying to climb out the tower window.
(b) Sigismund argues with him.
(c) He sees from the straw that Sigismund has been playing with fire.
(d) Sigismund is trying to pick the lock.

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

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

6. How does Anton react when Sigismund asks whether he actually is a human being?
(a) He tells him he is a mutant.
(b) He ignores the question.
(c) He laughs at him.
(d) He tells him he is human.

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

8. What is revealed about the Peasant Woman?
(a) She is the King's sister.
(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 Sigismund's mother and the Queen.

9. What does Julian say he has begun to have?
(a) Many naps.
(b) A large apetite.
(c) No apetite.
(d) Sleepless nights.

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

11. After the Recruit goes off, what does conversation between the guards reveal about Olivier?
(a) He is also a new Recruit.
(b) He is the King.
(c) He is the new Guard Commander.
(d) He is a knight.

12. How does Andrew explain the source of the noise?
(a) The Prisoner has a horse's bone that he uses to attack rats and other vermin when they get too much for him.
(b) The Prisoner is singing to himself to stay calm.
(c) The Prisoner is suffocating his cellmate.
(d) The Prisoner is crying and praying for help.

13. 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 feast held in honor of the King.
(d) A revolution that will end the lives of the nobility and the wealthy.

14. What did the prophecy contain?
(a) A peaceful kingdom.
(b) A war with France.
(c) Horrifying images of war and violence.
(d) The death of his son.

15. How has Simon come?
(a) Saying he has ridden all night to seek out advice from the Doctor.
(b) Saying he was given the letter to bring to Anton in the usual way and that he rode all night in order to deliver the message promptly.
(c) Saying he needs to speak with Anton alone.
(d) Saying he has come to see the Prisoner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can not see the Governor?

2. What does Sigismund feel he can do?

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

4. What does the King do when the Young Monk reads another quote?

5. Ignatius says everything the King is and has ever been is nothing but what?

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