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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plans has Julian been making for Sigismund?
(a) His imprisonment.
(b) His escape.
(c) His life as King.
(d) His life in the tower.

2. When Sigismund is gone, the Doctor makes what promise?
(a) Sigismund will never rule.
(b) Sigismund will be taken care of and hints that his struggle for freedom is not finished.
(c) He will not return to this kingdom as long as the King is alive.
(d) He will never get involved with Sigismund again.

3. What has been untouched since the Queen's death?
(a) Her bedchamber.
(b) Her makeup.
(c) Her food.
(d) Her clothing.

4. Of what does Sigismund say Olivier smells?
(a) Death and revenge.
(b) Violets and roses.
(c) Cologne.
(d) Sweat and dirt.

5. Why does Olivier demand that Sigismund accuse Julian?
(a) So Julian will try to escape.
(b) So someone can be to blame.
(c) So Sigismund will show the peasants he has power.
(d) So he can be condemned and tortured.

6. What does the King tearfully recall, regarding a king turning over his throne to his heir?
(a) The King did not want to give his kingdom to anyone.
(b) The young King looked just like his father.
(c) The heir did not appreciate what was given to him.
(d) That King had urged his heir to bless the people of the kingdom in the same way that he himself had been blessed.

7. How does Sigismund react when Julian reveals himself?
(a) In excitement.
(b) In shock.
(c) In awe.
(d) In fear.

8. Why does Sigismund dismiss the others?
(a) So he can talk with the Gypsy Girl alone.
(b) He needs to pray.
(c) So he can plan his next military coup.
(d) He wants to be alone.

9. What is the King prepared to do to ensure that power and order in the kingdom continue?
(a) Create new laws.
(b) Whatever is necessary.
(c) Add to the list of Ten Prohibitions.
(d) Anything but hurt Sigismund.

10. What is Anton's warning?
(a) Sigismund will kill the King.
(b) The meeting between Sigismund and the King will not go well.
(c) Sigismund is stronger than the King.
(d) Sigismund is not ready to meet with the King.

11. How does Adam communicate with Sigismund?
(a) By whispers.
(b) By yelling loudly.
(c) In another language.
(d) Only through gestures.

12. Why does the King withdraw with Julian?
(a) He does not want to see his son.
(b) To observe the conversation between Adam and Sigismund.
(c) Sigismund needs time alone to adjust to his surroundings.
(d) He does not want to scare Sigismund.

13. What is one of the Ten Prohibitions in which Sigismund seems to have a skill?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Gluttony.
(c) Greed.
(d) Horseback riding.

14. What are the orders given by Olivier?
(a) The rebels are to destroy the castle.
(b) The nobles are to be set free.
(c) Peasants are all to rise up and rebel, and merchants are to be chained to the farmer's plows.
(d) The peasants are to be imprisioned and executed.

15. Who is the Children's King?
(a) He is the younger son of the King and Queen.
(b) He is an outgoing peasant boy who the other children call king.
(c) He is a boy that has decided to organize a militia group of children.
(d) He is the King's son by a servant, and he was kidnapped by his mother and raised in the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. A rebel named Jeronim tells other rebels that Sigismund's insane-sounding words are proof of what?

2. What does Olivier call Julian?

3. What does the King ask the Confessor about Sigismund?

4. What is the nobleman Adam's job?

5. What does the King tell Sigismund is his first responsibility as prince?

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