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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sigismund call the King?
(a) Satan.
(b) My Lord.
(c) God.
(d) Father.

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

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

5. As a courtier reports on Sigismund's desire to rest, of what does the King become aware?
(a) A strange noise coming from a nearby room.
(b) Someone singing.
(c) Screaming in the tower.
(d) Music being played on an organ.

6. How does the Gypsy Girl respond when one of the rebels asks her where Olivier is?
(a) She refuses to speak.
(b) She screams.
(c) She tells him where Olivier is.
(d) She hits him.

7. What has the King ordered Julian to be for the rest of his life?
(a) Sigismund's keeper.
(b) A priest.
(c) A courtier.
(d) A beggar.

8. Where does the King think he might like to withdraw?
(a) To the forest.
(b) To the monastery the way Ignatius did.
(c) To a resort by a beach.
(d) To a cabin in the moutains.

9. Who is the Confessor?
(a) A spy for the King.
(b) The hearer of the King's prayers and confessions.
(c) One who confesses his sins to the King.
(d) The courtier who has been with Sigismund.

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

11. After the courtier who has given Julian the news goes, Anton tries to do what for Julian?
(a) Make him laugh.
(b) Comfort him.
(c) Plead on his behalf.
(d) Find him a new job.

12. What does Anton say he has just heard?
(a) An explosion.
(b) A shout.
(c) A scream.
(d) A shot.

13. How does the King take the Confessor to mean by his statement regarding executions?
(a) There is hardly anything Sigismund can do to be executed.
(b) He must convince others that Sigismund is not of royal blood.
(c) No matter how slight Sigismund's transgression, the King has the right to execute him.
(d) No one may be executed.

14. With what does the Gypsy Girl say she is pregnant?
(a) A tumor.
(b) Olivier's child.
(c) Fear.
(d) Love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Olivier order Julian to try to do?

2. Why does Olivier want weapons drawn on Sigismund?

3. What does the King say to the Confessor about Sigismund?

4. What does the Spirit Figure of Julian do so Siglismund can see the war from above?

5. What are the rebels using as their battle cry?

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