Everyman

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  1. Everyman is an example of a:
    Tragedy
    Comedy
    Morality play
    Mystery play
  2. Everyman was probably being performed sometime in the:
    1180s
    1280s
    1380s
    1480s
    1580s
  3. The author of Everyman was:
    Author is unknown; it was the ongoing creation of many people.
    Author is unknown; but it is known to be the creation of a single author.
    William Langland
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    The Pearl Poet (the person who wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
  4. Everyman makes heavy use of allegory, which is:
    A story in which characters represent qualities or concepts and in which the plot acts out some basic pattern
    A story in which a catastrophe occurs in the life of some noble character, partly out of chance and partly out of some fatal weakness in his own character
    A poetic device in which the same consonant sound occurs multiple times in the same line
  5. Everyman opens with:
    Everyman counting his riches
    God expressing His anger at men and sending Death to punish them
    Warfare in Heaven between the good angels and evil angels
  6. When Death appears before Everyman, the former asks the latter to:
    Repent or risk dying
    Give larger tithes to the Church
    Cease his wicked ways
    Prepare to go on a pilgrimage
  7. Death asks Everyman to bring with him:
    His book of accounts
    His best friends
    All his money
    Nothing
  8. Before Death comes to Everyman, Everyman is described as living this sort of life:
    A good, honest, simple life
    A beastly, sinful life
    It is not clear in the text.
  9. The first .person. from whom Everyman seeks help is:
    Fellowhip
    Good Works
    Faith
    Riches
  10. The account book mentioned at various points in Everyman is:
    A record of Everyman's financial accounts, a listing of his property and assets
    A record of his life, how he has lived, his good and bad deeds
    It is not made clear in the text.
  11. In the story, Everyman seeks help from a character named Goods. Goods represents:
    Everyman's property: his assets, wealth
    Everyman's good deeds
    Everyman's good friends
    Everyman's involvement with church activities
  12. In the story, Everyman seeks help from a character named Fellowship. Fellowship represents:
    Everyman's property: his assets, wealth
    Everyman's good deeds
    Everyman's good friends
    Everyman's involvement with church activities
  13. Which one of the following allegorical figures actually does accompany Everyman all the way:
    Good Deeds
    Kindred
    Goods
    Knowledge
  14. What is Good Deeds' condition at the beginning of Everyman's pilgrimage?
    Sick, weak, mute
    Healthy, alert, talkative
    Nonexistent
  15. Everyman's pilgrimage takes him to:
    Canterbury
    The Green Chapel
    Renewed physical and spiritual life
    Death, the grave

   

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