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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 does the King tell the other courtiers about Julian's behavior?

2. What does the King do when the Young Monk reads another quote?

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

4. Whose grave does the King want to see?

5. The Doctor accuses Julian of committing a crime against who?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sigismund want from the Gypsy Girl?

2. What does the Beggar say when the Monk asks what he wants? What does the Porter tell the Monk about the Beggar?

3. What is Adam's job?

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

5. How does the play end?

6. What did the prophecy contain?

7. Of what does Julian accuse the Doctor? What is the Doctor's response?

8. What is causing the banging noise? Why?

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

10. What suddenly happens to Sigismund?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The play has an allegorical point of view.

Part 1) What is an allegory? Give an example of another story that is allegorical.

Part 2) What makes this play allegorical? Give two examples from the play to prove it is allegorical.

Part 3) Why might the author have made this play allegorical? What are your thoughts on the play having an allegorical point of view? Would this play be as engaging or effective if it were not allegorical? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Part of the play's thematic point relates to the value of the spirit.

Part 1) Prove this statement.

Part 2) What is meant by the spirit? Is the spirit valuable? Why or why not?

Part 3) What might this thematic point reveal about the author? Is the spirit valuable to the author? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Act 5, Part 2 is a climactic scene.

Part 1) Describe this scene. How is it climactic?

Part 2) How has the rest of the play led up to this climax?

Part 3) Is the outcome of this climax what you had expected? Why or why not?

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