Ring around the Moon | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Act 1, Scene 1

1. The play takes place in what sort of room?

Conservatory.

2. What is the room filled with?

Hothouse flowers.

3. Which two characters appear onstage first?

Joshua and Hugo.

4. What is the first topic of conversation in Act 1, Scene 1?

Frederic's odd sleeping habits.

5. At the beginning of the play, which two characters are engaged?

Frederic and Diana.

6. Lady India is a cousin to whom?

The twins.

7. What is the birth order of the twins?

Hugo is ten minutes older.

8. When Frederic appears, what does he ask Joshua?

If Diana has come down from her room.

9. What does the gardener intend to do with the shrubbery?

Set wolf traps in the shrubbery.

10. Where does Frederic sleep?

In the rhododendrons below Diana's window.

11. Whose joke upsets Frederic?

Diana's.

12. What is the topic of the...
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