For a quiz on this play, please be prepared to answer question 2, 6 OR 7. Your choice.

1.  What happens in the play?  Who is Aristorius?  Why does he sell the host?  Why do the Jews want to buy it?  What do they do it? 
 
2.  Portrayal of Christian and Jews.  How do the portrayals of Christians and Jews compare in this play?  What are the differences and similarities between them?
 
3.  How would you compare this play to the Prioress’s Tale?  How do the miracles compare?  The portrayal of the Jews?
 
4.  Why do you think this play was written?  What does it try to teach?
 
5.  Conversion. What is the significance of the conversion of the Jews at the end of the play?

6. How does this play relate to questions of hermeneutics, understanding and the tension between the "letter and the spirit" that we have been examining?

7. Is this play funny? If you think it has comic elements what purpose might they serve?