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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 life as King.
(b) His imprisonment.
(c) His escape.
(d) His life in the tower.

2. What calms Sigismund?
(a) Adam's soothing voice.
(b) The organ music.
(c) Prayers.
(d) The singing.

3. What does Sigismund do with Julian's request regarding the royal robes?
(a) He puts them on.
(b) He refuses to put them on.
(c) He burns them.
(d) He refuses to hang them out the window.

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

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

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

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

8. What does the King urge Julian to be?
(a) A better counselor to Sigismund than Ignatius was to him.
(b) More kind than Ignatius had been.
(c) Sigismund's friend.
(d) A spy for him.

9. What does Sigismund sense?
(a) Something important is about to happen to him.
(b) Hatred among the people.
(c) Fear.
(d) He is about to die.

10. What does the Boy say the peasants are doing?
(a) Fighting for the King.
(b) Calling for Sigismund's execution.
(c) Imprisoning the nobles.
(d) Executing the nobles.

11. What are the rebels using as their battle cry?
(a) Sigismund's name.
(b) Down with the King.
(c) We need freedom.
(d) Long live the king.

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

13. What does the Gypsy Girl magically cause to emerge from the earth?
(a) The Devil.
(b) Vampires.
(c) Plants.
(d) Human bones.

14. What does the King express to the Doctor?
(a) His uncertainties.
(b) His gratitude.
(c) His fear.
(d) His dislike.

15. What does Sigismund say about Marcus Aurelius?
(a) He had plans for his world in much the same way as Sigismund has plans for his.
(b) He is a great man that Sigismund wishes were there to help him.
(c) He reminds him of his father.
(d) He is very different from Sigismund.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Sigismund's new prison cell?

3. Where does the King think he might like to withdraw?

4. After the courtier who has given Julian the news goes, Anton tries to do what for Julian?

5. How does the King take the Confessor to mean by his statement regarding executions?

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