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

2. Where does this scene open?
(a) In the dining room of a mansion.
(b) In the garden.
(c) In the chapel.
(d) In a library of a mansion.

3. How does the play open?
(a) In a mansion.
(b) In a Catholic Church.
(c) In the garden of a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.
(d) In Miss Alice's garden.

4. How does Julian describe his loss of faith?
(a) It was a slow, gradual, and painful loss.
(b) He lost his faith when his parents died.
(c) He let contact with his faith slip away, seeding a deep sadness.
(d) He woke up one morning and no longer had faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Miss Alice like to do for the church?

2. To what are the second man's words compared?

3. When the lawyer enters the room to join in the dialogue, what is established?

4. Who does Julian say he found crying, "Help me, help me... help me, oh God, God, help me... oh help, help?"

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

(see the answer key)

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