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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Nicholas tell Lambert when he says he is a player?
(a) the people of the town are interested.
(b) the King's Justice wants more information.
(c) the players don't believe the Monk's story.
(d) the truth can be made known in a play about the murder.

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

4. Lambert tells Nicholas that:
(a) nothing.
(b) the money was hidden in the kitchen.
(c) the Monk didn't find money in the house.
(d) his daughter hid the money in her room.

5. Why couldn't Nicholas give the dying man absolution:
(a) he wasn't sick enough.
(b) he couldn't bring himself to do it.
(c) the man was already dead.
(d) he could not repent his sins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Justice say of the Monk:

2. In the play, Thomas Wells is portrayed as:

3. Nicholas represents himself to John Lambert as:

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

5. What does Nicholas blame for their problems?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the players feel they are in danger?

2. What does examining the body of Thomas Wells reveal?

3. When Martin begins the Prologue to the play, what does he explain to the audience?

4. Who does Nicholas decide to see for information?

5. What do Martin and Nicholas learn at the jail?

6. What happens in the show when Thomas Wells was portrayed as following the woman to her house?

7. What does Nicholas decide about returning to the church?

8. Why does Nicholas misrepresent himself as a representative of the King's Justice?

9. What happens before the conclusion of the performance?

10. Nicholas thinks over the events of the last few days. What does he blame for their predicament?

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