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

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

3. As Anton goes, who comes back in.
(a) The King.
(b) The Doctor.
(c) Simon.
(d) The Prisoner.

4. How does Sigismund make Anton angry?
(a) Sigismund argues with him.
(b) Sigismund is trying to pick the lock.
(c) He sees from the straw that Sigismund has been playing with fire.
(d) He sees Sigismund trying to climb out the tower window.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anton respond to Julian's interest to join the court?

2. What does the King say has eluded him?

3. How does Anton react when Sigismund asks whether he actually is a human being?

4. What are the Ten Prohibitions?

5. How do the people feel about this news from the King?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Olivier grab a weapon? What does Andrew do with the weapon? Why?

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

3. What is expected of the Doctor?

4. How does this act begin?

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

6. What did the prophecy contain?

7. Why does the King believe he must be listened to?

8. How does the scene open?

9. What does Pancras say when Olivier calls the Prisoner a prince? What is Olivier's response to Pancras?

10. How does the play end?

(see the answer keys)

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