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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Springer and Straw learn at the castle?
(a) there is a great deal of concern about a miscarriage of justice.
(b) there is no interest in the case.
(c) nothing.
(d) they support the woman.

2. What do they rind in the chamber:
(a) Margaret.
(b) Jane.
(c) their costumes and masks.
(d) money.

3. What is the name of the woman to be hanged?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Elsie.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Jane.

4. How was the strangling of Thomas Wells portrayed:
(a) verbally.
(b) very realistically.
(c) it was only alluded to.
(d) in dumb stage.

5. Martin raises the issue of:
(a) the story of the beggar.
(b) the innocence of Jane.
(c) five boys missing.
(d) the condition of Lord William.

6. Springer, as Thomas Wells, raises the question of:
(a) money.
(b) where the body was.
(c) a strange man.
(d) why the burial was so quick.

7. What does Lord de Guise have with him?
(a) a falcon.
(b) a book.
(c) his wife.
(d) a note pad.

8. Who is dying?
(a) Jane.
(b) a household servant.
(c) the Knight injured in the jousting match.
(d) Margaret.

9. What are the players allowed to take with them to the castle?
(a) their costumes and masks.
(b) nothing.
(c) all of their belongings.
(d) as much as they could carry.

10. What other question is raised in the play?
(a) why was the boy on the road.
(b) why was the Monk on the road.
(c) why was the woman on the road.
(d) nothing.

11. How do the players feel before the play?
(a) excited.
(b) nonchalant.
(c) nervous.
(d) afraid.

12. In the play Nicholas plays the role of:
(a) the Monk.
(b) Good Counsel and Conscience.
(c) Thomas Wells.
(d) God.

13. What is noticed about the body of the Monk?
(a) bruises on the wrist.
(b) knife in body.
(c) bruises on the body.
(d) head smashed.

14. Lord de Guise wants:
(a) the girl freed.
(b) the girl killed.
(c) to see the play of the murder.
(d) the players to leave his domain.

15. What do they learn in the middle of the performance?
(a) the Monk has confessed.
(b) the Monk is dead.
(c) Jane is freed.
(d) Jane has been hanged.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was in the audience that shouted out during the play?

2. After leaving the room, Nicholas:

3. Nicholas represents himself to John Lambert as:

4. Martin and Nicholas learn that two other prisoners are imprisoned for:

5. What does Nicholas learn from the beggar?

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