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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Julian ask whether or not someone will soon be available?
(a) To confess his sins.
(b) To see him for his appointment.
(c) To get a tour of the garden.
(d) To take photographs of him and the birds.

2. Julian is intrigued by the butler's coincidence. How does the Butler feel?
(a) Sad.
(b) Just as excited.
(c) Nonplussed about almost everything.
(d) Unsure about Julian.

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

4. To what are the second man's words compared?
(a) Nails down a chalkboard.
(b) Brown, sticky, smelly mud.
(c) The exaggerated sneer of the animal in question.
(d) A growl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is studying this creation from all angles?

2. Who delights in the lawyer's discomfort?

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

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

5. What are both the butler and the lawyer, who have known each other for some time, quite eager to do?

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