Mankind: Medieval Morality Plays Quizzes

Mankind: Medieval Morality Plays Quiz 1

1 Who is the first character to speak?
Mankind

Nought

Titivillus

Mercy
2 Mercy often speaks in...
pentameter

tetrameter

nonsense rhyme

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

Mischief

Titivillus

Mankind
4 "Divert not yourself in time of temptation" - what does it mean?
Do not go astray when tempted

Don't tempt people

Don't be tempted to entertain yourself

Don't hurt yourself when tempted
5 What does Mankind advise us not to fasten our hopes on?
False prophets

"Things transitory"

"The manly impulses"

The devil
6 Who enters second and parodies Mercy's speech?
Mischief

God

Nowadays

Nought
7 Who says "mish-mash, driff-draff"?
Mischief

Nowadays

Nought

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

Mischief

Nowadays

Mercy
9 What does Mischief come to do to Mercy?
"confesseth you"

"smiteth you"

"hie you forth on foot"

"make you game"
10 What does "make you game" mean?
Make you into pie

Make fun of you

Make you free of sin

Shoot you
11 Why don't we know what happens before Nought enters with Newguise and Nowadays?
The writer has crossed out that section on the manuscript

It's never been performed

Mercy delivers a sermon

A leaf is missing from the manuscript
12 Who is being whipped as he first enters?
Mischief

Newguise

Nowadays

Nought
13 Who refuses to dance?
Nowadays

Nought

Newguise

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

Mercy

Nought

Nowadays
15 Who is tripped up by the three vices?
Mercy

Titivillus

Mischief

Mankind
16 What is a "trippet"?
a kick

a journey

a punch

a trip
17 Whose body is "full of English Latin"?
Nowadays

Newguise

Nought

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

Mischief

Newguise

Nought
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"?
Mankind

Mercy

Mischief

Titivillus
21 Who "discommends" the vicious guise of nowadays?
Nowadays

Mercy

Nought

Mischief
22 "Of the earth and of the clay..." - whose first words are these?
Everyman's

Mankind's

Titivillus'

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?
buying indulgences

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

becoming priests

to do good deeds
25 Who has his composition "of a body and of a soul"?
Mischief

Mercy

Titivillus

Mankind

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