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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the man react at having been discovered cooing to the caged birds?
(a) Not surprised.
(b) Sad.
(c) Angry.
(d) Flustered and a bit embarrassed.

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

4. What does Miss Alice say she has done?
(a) Sold her soul to the devil.
(b) Given up on the lawyer.
(c) Nothing wrong.
(d) Tried to obey, tried to understand, she has tried!

5. Why is Julian confused about Miss Alice's deafness, withered face, and gray and white matted hair?
(a) He wonders why she is not in a facility for the elderly.
(b) He was told by the Cardinal that the woman was neither ill nor old.
(c) He did not realize how sorry he would feel for her.
(d) He is surprised she has no nurse to assist her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Julian struggle?

2. Why does Julian ask whether or not someone will soon be available?

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

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. What does the first man do in an attempt to fend off his feelings about being caught?

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