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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting?

2. What does Ignatius say about how the terror and remorse the King is experiencing?

3. For what does Julian ask the Doctor to prescribe?

4. How does Sigismund respond when Julian tells him he has to drink the potion to go on a journey?

5. What does Julian tell the Doctor he is expected to do, regarding the Prisoner's health?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the Prisoner torment others?

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

4. What does Olivier say about violence to come?

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

6. What is heard in the distance?

7. What does Olivier think he hears?

8. What does the conversation with the Peasant Woman reveal?

9. What does the Doctor confirm when he appears?

10. What does the King say Sigismund must do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The relationship between Sigismund and the Children's King is important.

Part 1) Describe their relationship. Why is their relationship like this?

Part 2) Why is their relationship important?

Part 3) What does their relationship symbolize? What is the audience supposed to get from this relationship? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The confrontation between Sigismund and the King in the second part of the third act is the play's first climax.

Part 1) Describe the confrontation. Why does the confrontation take place? How is this confrontation foreshadowed?

Part 2) What does this confrontation symbolize? How do you know this?

Part 3) What can a reader or audience member learn from this confrontation? What is the purpose of this confrontation?

Essay Topic 3

The tower has significant symbolic value.

Part 1) Describe the tower. Why is this also the title of the book?

Part 2) What does the tower symbolize? Why is it significant?

Part 3) What should the audience take with them after seeing this play? Why?

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