Reading Comprehension Question from the play Everyman

Attempt Score 76.8 out of 80 points Time limit: 1 hour and 30 minutes 50 multiple-choice, true/false, matching and reading comprehension questions Open-book/open-notes Please use the following passage to answer the first 5 questions: Reading Comprehension Question from the play Everyman (lines 22-79). GOD: I perceive here in my majesty, How that all the creatures be to me unkind, Living without dread in worldly prosperity: Of ghostly sight the people be so blind, Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God; In worldly riches is all their mind. They fear not my righteousness, the sharp rod. My law that I showed, when I for them died, They forget clean, and shedding of my blood red; I hanged between two, it cannot be denied; To get them life I suffered to be dead; I healed their feet, with thorns hurt was my head. I could do no more than I did, truly; And now I see the people do clean forsake me. They use the seven deadly sins damnable, As pride, covetise, wrath, and lechery Now in the world be made commendable; And thus they leave of angels the heavenly company. Every man liveth so after his own pleasure, And yet of their life they be nothing sure: I see the more that I them forbear The worse they be from year to year. … I hoped well that every man In my glory should make his mansion, And thereto I had them all elect; But now I see, like traitors deject, They thank me not for the pleasure that I to them meant, Nor yet for their being that I them have lent; I proffered the people great multitude of mercy, And few there be that asketh it heartily; They be so cumbered with worldly riches That needs on them I must do justice, On every man living without fear. Where art thou, Death, thou mighty messenger? [Enter Death] DEATH: Almighty God, I am here at your will, Your commandment to fulfill. GOD: Go thou to Everyman, And show him, in my name, A pilgrimage he must … take … And that he bring with him a sure reckoning DEATH: Lord, I will in the world go run overall, And cruelly outsearch both great and small; Everyman will I beset that liveth beastly Out of God’s laws, and dreadeth not folly. He that loveth riches I will strike with my dart, His sight to blind, and from heaven to depart-- Except that alms be his good friend-In hell for to dwell, world without end. Question 1 1.6 out of 1.6 points In context, the excerpt depicts Everyman as __________. Selected Answer: secular and oblivious of the consequences of evil. Question 2 1.6 out of 1.6 points Which of the following best summarizes God’s admonition? Selected Answer: Focus not on materialism. Question 3 1.6 out of 1.6 points Choose one word that best explains why the people have rejected the “multitude of mercy” offered by the speaker? Selected Answer: Materialism Question 4 1.6 out of 1.6 points In context, the excerpt says that __________. Selected Answer: God is rejected Question 5 1.6 out of 1.6 points Choose one word that best describes how the speaker feels about those of whom he speaks. Selected Answer: Disappointed Question 6 1.6 out of 1.6 points Sophocles did not Selected Answer: enlarge the importance of the fifth actor Question 7 1.6 out of 1.6 points When the chorus enters in a Greek play, it is called the parados. Selected Answer: True Question 8 1.6 out of 1.6 points Match the following: place, time, action A. Three unities melodrama B. Over-sentimental or overemotional tragedy tragic hero C. The noble protagonist and focus of interest in classical Greek drama Rood D. The cross of Christ soliloquy E. A monologue or character speaking to himself dues ex machine F. Lowering a "god" over the wall of the changing house in a Greek drama farce G. Crude comedy in medias res H. Phrase describing works like Sophocles' Oedipus Rex that begin in the middle of the action eccyclema I. A device for rolling out on the stage the evidence of actions that could not be depicted on stage climax J. Another name for crisis or the point of greatest tension Oedipus K. Swollen-foot miracle play L. Bible story parados M. Synonym for the Greek chorus; songs of the chorus Pisistratus N. Instituted an annual March festival at which tragedies were produced in competition for prizes Pope Urban IV O. Instituted a corpus Christi fesitval Question 9 1.6 out of 1.6 points A contrived "miracle" of intervention used to solve problems is the deus ex machina. Selected Answer: True Question 10 1.6 out of 1.6 points Oedipus speaks of _____ as seer and student of mysteries. Selected Answer: Teiresias Question 11 1.6 out of 1.6 points In the play Oedipus the Chorus say: “Alas the seed of men./…/ That breathe on void and are void / And exist and do not exist?” In context, what does the second line—“That breathe on void and are void”—literally mean? Selected Answer: Humans breathe air and are nothing. Question 12 1.6 out of 1.6 points The name of the blind seer in Oedipus is Kreon. Selected Answer: False Question 13 1.6 out of 1.6 points Antigone and Ismene are Oedipus' daughters. Selected Answer: True Question 14 1.6 out of 1.6 points Five Wits affirms the doctrine of transubstantiation. Selected Answer: True Question 15 1.6 out of 1.6 points Have you read the syllabus as posted in this course? Selected Answer: Yes Question 16 0 out of 1.6 points Sophocles is noted for his clear and logical action that used political, religious, and personal elements. Selected Answer: False Question 17 1.6 out of 1.6 points "Quem Quoeritis" means "Whom Do You Seek." Selected Answer: True Question 18 1.6 out of 1.6 points Ancient Greek drama used the deus ex machina. Selected Answer: True Question 19 1.6 out of 1.6 points Goods speaks in the play Everyman saying: “Who calleth me? Everyman? What hast thou hast! / I lie here in corners, trussed and piled so high, / And in chest I am locked so fast, / Also sacked in bags, thou mayst see with thine eye, / I cannot stir; in packs low I lie. / What would ye have, lightly me say.” An inanimate object, Goods, speaks in this excerpt. This technique is called ____________. Selected Answer: Personification Question 20 1.6 out of 1.6 points Greek theatrical performances included a replica of Dionysus on stage. Selected Answer: True Question 21 1.6 out of 1.6 points According to the messenger in Everyman, the actual title of the play is: Selected Answer: The Summoning of Everyman Question 22 1.6 out of 1.6 points Greek choral odes find their roots in early religious worship of Dionysus. Selected Answer: True Question 23 1.6 out of 1.6 points In 534 B.C., Pisistratus instituted an annual March festival at which tragedies were produced in competition for prizes. Selected Answer: True Question 24 1.6 out of 1.6 points Oedipus declares that he is no murderer. Selected Answer: True Question 25 1.6 out of 1.6 points Dionysus was the god of dance. Selected Answer: False Question 26 1.6 out of 1.6 points Miracle plays allow for a wider array of characters than do classical dramas. Selected Answer: True Question 27 1.6 out of 1.6 points "Hamartia" is a criminal act committed in ignorance of some material fact or even for the sake of greater good. Selected Answer: True Question 28 1.6 out of 1.6 points Aeschylus was a student of Sophocles. Selected Answer: False Question 29 1.6 out of 1.6 points The three unities of Greek drama (the unities of place, time, and action) were inviolable, enforced laws imposed upon classical drama. Selected Answer: False Question 30 1.6 out of 1.6 points "Quem Quoeritis" refers to Jesus as a brave lamb. Selected Answer: False Question 31 1.6 out of 1.6 points According to Everyman, there are _____ sacraments. Selected Answer: seven Question 32 1.6 out of 1.6 points Everyman is an extant English medieval morality play. Selected Answer: True Question 33 1.6 out of 1.6 points Principal characters can be static, i.e., unchanged by the plot's events. Selected Answer: True Question 34 1.6 out of 1.6 points The plot of Oedipus Rex has been called one of the most perfect dramatic plots ever conceived. Selected Answer: True Question 35 1.6 out of 1.6 points A major purpose of Greek theatre was to beautify religious worship with art: singing, poetry, dancing, and acting. Selected Answer: True Question 36 1.6 out of 1.6 points The play Oedipus opens with the following speech by Oedipus: “… Children, / I would not have you speak trough messengers, / And therefore I have come myself to hear you- / I, Oedipus, who bear the famous name.” What is Oedipus’ perception of himself in this speech? Selected Answer: Important Question 37 1.6 out of 1.6 points Richard Caxton printed Everyman in English in the early 1600's. Selected Answer: False Question 38 1.6 out of 1.6 points In classical drama, "Orchestra" meant a place of dance. Selected Answer: True Question 39 1.6 out of 1.6 points The scene (skene) building was three stories tall housing equipment and wardrobe on floors one and two and using the third floor to portray the heavens. Selected Answer: False Question 40 1.6 out of 1.6 points Miracle plays used variety in subject matter and plot. Selected Answer: True Question 41 1.6 out of 1.6 points In the play Oedipus the Chorus say: “Alas the seed of men./…/ That breathe on void and are void / And exist and do not exist?” In context, what does the first line—“Alas the seed of men”— mean? Selected Answer: Humans are nothing; their plight is misery Question 42 1.6 out of 1.6 points The scene (skene) could not be used for action because the audience could not see inside it. Selected Answer: True Question 43 1.6 out of 1.6 points The Greek scene (skene) building had no drop curtain. Selected Answer: True Question 44 1.6 out of 1.6 points In Everyman, Discretion is much like Faithful in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Selected Answer: False Question 45 1.6 out of 1.6 points Setting can be used as symbol. Selected Answer: True Question 46 1.6 out of 1.6 points According to Fellowship in Everyman, what is duty? Selected Answer: Promise Question 47 1.6 out of 1.6 points The church was instrumental in breaking up ancient pagan drama. Selected Answer: True Question 48 0 out of 1.6 points Which is not true of miracle plays? Selected Answer: Were condemned by some churchmen. Question 49 1.6 out of 1.6 points Comedy exposes and ridicules human folly. It makes us laugh. Selected Answer: True Question 50 1.6 out of 1.6 points Foreshadowing is clues communicated by the playwright to indicate how the action of a play is going to develop. Selected Answer: True