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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the second person make his insult more insulting?
(a) He throws more mud.
(b) She throws more mud.
(c) He draws it out in his speech dramatically.
(d) He makes the same comment over and over again.

2. Who delights in the lawyer's discomfort?
(a) The Cardinal.
(b) The birds.
(c) Miss Alice.
(d) Julian.

3. What becomes evident about the two men as the conversation shifts?
(a) They work together.
(b) They have known each other since childhood.
(c) They have known each other a little while.
(d) They have just met.

4. What would she like to do for the church for twenty years?
(a) Teach Sunday school every week.
(b) Spend one day a month working for a charity.
(c) Give one hundred million dollars a year.
(d) Make a new robe for the priest every year.

5. For whom is the larger of the two chairs?
(a) The Pope.
(b) The lawyer.
(c) Miss Alice.
(d) His Eminence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who enters the courtyard through an iron gate and moves quietly toward the man and watches him with mild amusement?

2. What, at last, occurs?

3. What species of bird is in the birdcage?

4. How does this observer address the man who is cooing at the birds?

5. How does the second person react?

(see the answer key)

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