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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sister Aloysius say boys are made of?
(a) God's good intentions.
(b) Sticks and stones.
(c) Gravel, soot, and tar paper.
(d) Snips and snails and puppy dog tails.

2. In Scene 4, what does Sister Aloysius say that she wouldn't mind being?
(a) The basketball coach.
(b) Married.
(c) A man.
(d) Wrong.

3. What is Sister Aloysius' function at the school?
(a) She teaches history.
(b) She is in charge of the infirmary.
(c) She teaches literature.
(d) She is principal.

4. In Scene 3, what is Father Flynn wearing?
(a) Sweat shirt and pants.
(b) Dress pants and a dress shirt.
(c) His priest's robe.
(d) Shorts and a t-shirt.

5. What does Father Flynn say is on the other side of the glass from happy, untroubled people when he delivers the sermon in the opening scene?
(a) You.
(b) Your neighbor.
(c) Everyone else.
(d) Nothing.

6. In Scene 3, what does Father Flynn say some of the boys have?
(a) Dirty hair.
(b) Dirty shoes.
(c) Dirty fingernails.
(d) Dirty uniforms.

7. What does Sister Aloysius say Sister James will trade for a warm look?
(a) Her prized possession.
(b) Her pride.
(c) Her heart.
(d) Anything.

8. In the opening scene of the play, Father Flynn describes the sailor's dilemma as what?
(a) A crisis of faith.
(b) A trivial matter.
(c) A nuisance.
(d) A loss of hope.

9. In his first sermon, what does Father Flynn say can be as powerful and sustaining as certainty?
(a) Faith.
(b) Love.
(c) Hope.
(d) Doubt.

10. In Scene 4, what does Sister Aloysius say it is her job to do?
(a) To top the hare in speed.
(b) To outshine the fox in cleverness.
(c) To outswim the fishes.
(d) To beat the sheep in meakness.

11. How does Sister Aloysius react to Father Flynn's reason for meeting privately with Donald Muller?
(a) She is angry.
(b) She is relieved.
(c) She is delighted.
(d) She thinks he is lying.

12. Besides taking the students for ice cream, what other trip does Father Flynn suggest for the boys?
(a) A trip to the beach.
(b) A trip to a museum.
(c) A trip to a bowling alley.
(d) A camping trip.

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

14. In Scene 5, who serves the tea?
(a) Sister Veronica.
(b) Father Flynn.
(c) Sister James.
(d) Sister Aloysius.

15. In Scene 2, what does Sister Aloysius ask Sister James to do when Sister Veronica is on the stone stairs?
(a) Alert Father Flynn.
(b) Come and get Sister Aloysius.
(c) Move out of the way.
(d) Lead Sister Veronica down.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Scene 4, why does Sister Aloysius believe Donald Muller would lie about what happened with Father Flynn?

3. What happens to the ship in the parable of the sailor told by Father Flynn in Scene 1?

4. Father Flynn tells the boys that people won't think they look silly when they do what?

5. In Father Flynn's sermon on doubt, what did he say binds people together?

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