Mankind: Medieval Morality Plays Quizzes

Mankind: Medieval Morality Plays Quiz 1

By Robert William · Edited by Soman Chainani · Last reviewed September 20, 2010

1 Who is the first character to speak?

Mercy

Mankind

Nought

Titivillus
2 Mercy often speaks in...

pentameter

nonsense rhyme

sermons

tetrameter
3 Who advises the audience to "Divert not yourself in time of temptation"?

Mankind

Mischief

Titivillus

Mercy
4 "Divert not yourself in time of temptation" - what does it mean?

Don't hurt yourself when tempted

Do not go astray when tempted

Don't be tempted to entertain yourself

Don't tempt people
5 What does Mankind advise us not to fasten our hopes on?

The devil

"Things transitory"

False prophets

"The manly impulses"
6 Who enters second and parodies Mercy's speech?

Nought

Mischief

God

Nowadays
7 Who says "mish-mash, driff-draff"?

Nowadays

Nought

Mischief

Newguise
8 Who says they have come here as a "winter corn thresher"?

Nowadays

Mercy

Mischief

Nought
9 What does Mischief come to do to Mercy?

"make you game"

"confesseth you"

"smiteth you"

"hie you forth on foot"
10 What does "make you game" mean?

Make you free of sin

Make you into pie

Shoot you

Make fun of you
11 Why don't we know what happens before Nought enters with Newguise and Nowadays?

Mercy delivers a sermon

It's never been performed

A leaf is missing from the manuscript

The writer has crossed out that section on the manuscript
12 Who is being whipped as he first enters?

Mischief

Nowadays

Newguise

Nought
13 Who refuses to dance?

Nowadays

Newguise

Nought

Mercy
14 Who cries for help as "wretches delight in their sinful ways!"

Knowledge

Nought

Mercy

Nowadays
15 Who is tripped up by the three vices?

Mankind

Mercy

Titivillus

Mischief
16 What is a "trippet"?

a kick

a journey

a trip

a punch
17 Whose body is "full of English Latin"?

Nowadays

Nought

Newguise

Mercy
18 Who asks Mercy to translate into Latin "I have shitten your mouth full of turds"?

Nought

Nowadays

Newguise

Mischief
19 How do we describe Nowadays, Newguise, and Nought?

The three vices

The vices

The macros

The three tenors
20 Who describes the three vices as "unthrifty guests"?

Mercy

Titivillus

Mankind

Mischief
21 Who "discommends" the vicious guise of nowadays?

Mercy

Nowadays

Mischief

Nought
22 "Of the earth and of the clay..." - whose first words are these?

Titivillus'

Mankind's

Everyman's

Mischief's
23 What word does Mankind use to describe the audience?

audience

sinners all

congregation

collected
24 When Mankind first enters, what does he say will get us into heaven?

to do good deeds

becoming priests

if we "mortify our carnal condition and our voluntary desires"

buying indulgences
25 Who has his composition "of a body and of a soul"?

Mankind

Mischief

Mercy

Titivillus

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