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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ignatius respond when the King falls to his knees, asking Ignatius' guidance in how to get his son back?
(a) Ignatius tells him he will do all he can.
(b) Ignatius tellls him to leave.
(c) Ignatius tells him he does not deserve his son.
(d) Ignatius tells him he's just acting.

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

3. For what does Julian ask the Doctor to prescribe?
(a) Something that will keep him awake.
(b) Something that will calm him down.
(c) Something that will help him sleep.
(d) Something that make him confident.

4. Who is the visitor Ignatius is happy to see?
(a) Julian.
(b) The Beggar.
(c) Anton.
(d) The King.

5. Specific parallels to _____ story appear throughout the play, making thematic points about the importance of integrity, faith and tensions between spiritual and earthly power.
(a) The Buddha.
(b) The Zeus.
(c) The Christ.
(d) The Czar.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Anton goes, who comes back in.

2. What does Ignatius reminds the King about marriage between a man and woman?

3. Who does Anton say the Prisoner sometimes flies into a rage and attacks?

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

5. What is the setting of this scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Anton respond to seeing the charred straw?

2. How does Sigismund react when Julian appears? What does Julian do when he sees Sigismund's reaction?

3. How will Sigismund's new order be different from the old?

4. How does Julian feel about joining the King's court?

5. What does the Peasant Woman say and do when Sigismund cries out for his real mother?

6. What does Sigismund say about the old regime?

7. What does Sigismund say when he sees the Doctor's shocked expression?

8. What does the King say to the Confessor?

9. What does Olivier think he hears?

10. How does Sigismund imitate Christ?

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