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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who hears someone making way for Everyman when he dies?
(a) Strength
(b) Five Wits
(c) Knowledge
(d) Discernment

2. How is wealth described at the end of the book?
(a) Essential
(b) Superficial
(c) Dangerous
(d) Loving

3. What do people on Earth spend their time thinking about, according to this play?
(a) Religion
(b) Riches
(c) Sex
(d) Friends

4. What does Death tell Everyman to find?
(a) Clothing
(b) Friends
(c) Humility
(d) Money

5. What does Goods say caused Everyman to commit many of his sins?
(a) Distraction
(b) Confusion
(c) Riches
(d) Lust

6. Why is Everyman told he is wrong about the priests being above someone?
(a) They are deceived
(b) They are not perfect
(c) They are mortal
(d) They are limited

7. Who brought about the second chance given to people?
(a) The Spirit
(b) Eve
(c) Adam
(d) Jesus

8. What book is referenced by the messenger?
(a) The Bible
(b) The Book of Laws
(c) The New Testament
(d) The Book of Life

9. Where does Everyman go when he dies?
(a) Purgatory
(b) Paradise
(c) Hell
(d) Heaven

10. What does this play teach about reincarnation?
(a) It is not a true principle
(b) It is available for some
(c) It is only for the wicked
(d) It is only for the very righteous

11. Who rebukes Everyman for thinking priests are above someone?
(a) Five Wits
(b) Beauty
(c) Good Deeds
(d) Knowledge

12. What country was Everyman born in?
(a) France
(b) England
(c) Italy
(d) Greece

13. What does Everyman think after talking to Kindred and Fellowship?
(a) He sees the truth of things now
(b) He can’t believe he considered them friends
(c) He is a lucky man
(d) He is more scared than ever

14. Who is able to escape death, according to this play?
(a) Angels
(b) The righteous
(c) Everyman
(d) Nobody

15. Who makes way for Everyman when he dies?
(a) God
(b) Death
(c) The Priests
(d) The Angels

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Everyman have a hard time believing after his sacraments?

2. How does Everyman feel when the first of his friends leaves him when he is ready for his reckoning?

3. Who does Five Wits tell Everyman to trust?

4. Who does Death say Everyman is living for?

5. Why does Everyman tell Death it is unfair for him to leave now?

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