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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the two discuss about the details of this creation?
(a) Whether or not there is a more beautiful garden in the country.
(b) Whether or not there might be another model of the room inside the model's library, and so on and so on.
(c) How many birds are in the estuary.
(d) When the church was built.

2. How do the two continue to insult one another?
(a) They glare at one another.
(b) They whisper nasty remarks under their breath.
(c) Each man begins to question the intimate relations of the other's mother and their resulting parentage.
(d) They do so with swinging fists.

3. Why does the lawyer comment to Miss Alice, "that will be our bird of prey?"
(a) To the butler eavesdropping.
(b) The Cardinal's innocence.
(c) To a knock at the door.
(d) To the birds flying around outside.

4. About what do the lawyer and butler relentlessly question Julian?
(a) His relationship with the Cardinal.
(b) His interest in birds.
(c) His training in the priesthood.
(d) His background.

5. How did Julian struggle?
(a) Leaving his wife and child to join the priesthood.
(b) Mentally and spiritually over the Nature of God.
(c) Making friends with children at school.
(d) He felt alone growing up in the orphanage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, at last, occurs?

2. How does the man react at having been discovered cooing to the caged birds?

3. For whom is the larger of the two chairs?

4. Who does Julian describe as a quiet, plain woman with soft features; one year or so on either side of forty, married to the owner of a dry goods store?

5. Where does this scene open?

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