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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening to Sister Veronica?
(a) She is retiring.
(b) She is going blind.
(c) She is dying of cancer.
(d) She is going deaf.

2. What does Sister Aloysius say is dying across the country?
(a) Penmanship.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Grammar skills.
(d) Good teaching methods.

3. Who teaches the physical education and religion classes?
(a) Sister Veronica.
(b) Sister James.
(c) Father Flynn.
(d) Sister Aloysius.

4. What happened to Father Flynn's childhood acquaintance, Timmy Mathisson?
(a) He grew up to be a doctor.
(b) He was horribly disfigured.
(c) He lost all his friends.
(d) He died a horrible death.

5. Father Flynn tells the boys that people won't think they look silly when they do what?
(a) Get noticed by girls.
(b) Win the game.
(c) Get a basket.
(d) Run out on the court.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Scene 3, what does Father Flynn tell the boys to do after getting dressed?

2. What does Father Flynn say will sometimes get you?

3. What does Father Flynn believe is the danger at the free throw line?

4. In Scene 2, what does Sister Aloysius ask Sister James to do when Sister Veronica is on the stone stairs?

5. In Father Flynn's opening sermon, he mentions what event that happened the year before the play takes place?

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