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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Doctor think about the Prisoner's soul?
(a) It is dying.
(b) It is weak.
(c) It is going to Hell.
(d) It is noble and predestined for high distinction.

2. Who does Olivier think can sense "the bloodshed to come?"
(a) The pigeons.
(b) The guards.
(c) The Jewish smugglers.
(d) The princes.

3. He adds that Julian's spiritual freedom depends on what?
(a) The Prisoner's physical freedom.
(b) How often he attends mass.
(c) To whom he prays.
(d) His desire to be saved.

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

5. How has Simon come?
(a) Saying he has come to see the Prisoner.
(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 has ridden all night to seek out advice from the Doctor.
(d) Saying he needs to speak with Anton alone.

6. What does Sigismund say about man, as Julian calls for the guards?
(a) Man is strange.
(b) Man is the devil.
(c) Man is glorious.
(d) Man is evil.

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

8. What is the setting?
(a) A pasture behind the tower.
(b) A room in the castle.
(c) The Peasant Woman's home.
(d) Another room of the tower.

9. What does the King hope that Ignatius will be able to do?
(a) Run away.
(b) Stay in the monastery.
(c) Help him.
(d) Leave him.

10. Who does Anton say the Prisoner sometimes flies into a rage and attacks?
(a) Animals.
(b) The Guards.
(c) Him.
(d) The King.

11. How does Olivier speak to the guards?
(a) Kindly.
(b) Sadly.
(c) Arrogantly.
(d) Quietly.

12. Who is a spiritual young man tortured and imprisoned by authority figures afraid of his power?
(a) Sigismund.
(b) Siegfried.
(c) Julian.
(d) The Children's King.

13. What does the Doctor say is the same as strong will?
(a) A strong mind.
(b) Strong thoughts.
(c) Strong arms.
(d) Strong faith.

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

15. The Doctor that with each glance the Prisoner offers what?
(a) A lesson to be learned.
(b) A glimpse of what it is like to be a prisoner.
(c) His patience and holiness.
(d) A view into his soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julian say he has begun to have?

2. Who is Anton?

3. The Doctor accuses Julian of committing a crime against who?

4. Whose grave does the King want to see?

5. What does Sigismund do when the Peasant Woman tries to get him to pray with her?

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