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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Martin learn will begin the next day?
(a) six days of jousting.
(b) a religious service.
(c) war games.
(d) three days of plays.

2. Who is the group's patron lord:
(a) Sir William Percy.
(b) Sir Robert de Brian.
(c) the Bishop.
(d) Robert Sandville.

3. What kind of performance are the players going to give?
(a) singing.
(b) dancing.
(c) the Play of Adam.
(d) Greek tragedy.

4. What month is it when Nicholas leaves without permission?
(a) May.
(b) March.
(c) June.
(d) December.

5. What does Martin compare players to?
(a) a good jousting match.
(b) a priest before the altar.
(c) a lord before his king.
(d) a knight on a horse.

6. Where is the troupe heading for?
(a) unknown.
(b) Durham.
(c) London.
(d) Dover.

7. How many people did Nicholas count in the group?
(a) four.
(b) six.
(c) five.
(d) three.

8. Thomas Wells died by:
(a) strangulation.
(b) blow to the head.
(c) stabbing.
(d) speared.

9. The group arranges burial for Brendan with the:
(a) morgue.
(b) innkeeper.
(c) hospital.
(d) town priest.

10. What do they learn has occurred in the town?
(a) the birth of the lord's son.
(b) the marriage of the lord's daughter.
(c) a robbery.
(d) a murder.

11. Where does the group plan to perform?
(a) the town square.
(b) the town theater.
(c) behind the church.
(d) the yard of the inn.

12. Why wouldn't the innkeeper haggle over the price of the accommodations?
(a) he didn't like the look of the group.
(b) they were vagabond players.
(c) he thought they were robbers.
(d) he was overbooked.

13. What does Nicholas give as his reason for wanting to join the players?
(a) he wants to be in community.
(b) no reason.
(c) he wants to try being a player.
(d) he is afraid to be alone.

14. Where are the Knights riding to?
(a) the inn.
(b) France.
(c) the jousting tourney.
(d) their own lord.

15. Nicholas realizes that the group consisted of traveling players when:
(a) they tell him.
(b) he doesn't yet.
(c) people walking by applaud their performance.
(d) he sees the costomes and props in the cart.

Short Answer Questions

1. As they travel, Martin teaches Nicholas:

2. Before the funeral, Margaret:

3. In the Play of Adam, Springer plays the role of:

4. Who found the body of Thomas Wells:

5. What is supposed to happen to Roger True's daughter?

(see the answer keys)

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