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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whom do analysts believe were the originators of the "horrible detail" where Christ's limbs were stretched by cords? (Introduction to "The Crucifixion")
(a) Elizabethan playwrights.
(b) Medieval playwrights.
(c) Socratic theologists.
(d) Platonic theologists.

2. Who chose six of the pageants and added the initial glosses?
(a) Charles Westmoreland.
(b) Stewart Longs.
(c) Jonathon Michael St. Ives.
(d) John Warrington.

3. What does the Messenger tell the soldiers put on ? ("Herod the Great")
(a) Only the cloth of Herod.
(b) The chain-mail dress of Herod.
(c) The crest of the king.
(d) Full Armor.

4. Who, in "The Annunciation", does Isaiah claim has given mankind a mortal wound?
(a) Cain.
(b) Adam.
(c) Eve.
(d) The serpent.

5. Who comes to tell the shepherds of Jesus' birth? ("The Second Shepherds' Pageant")
(a) An angel.
(b) Mak.
(c) God.
(d) Gill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Scene I ("Cain and Abel") open?

2. How many days had past by the end of "The Creation of Adam and Eve"?

3. How many children did the soldiers state that they had murdered? ("Herod the Great")

4. Who participates in a "battle of wits" in "The Women Taken in Adultery"?

5. Why does Herod believe that the Christ child was born? ("Herod the Great")

(see the answer key)

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