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

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

3. What does the Butler point out?
(a) The garden is completely symmetrical.
(b) The cardinals control the behavior of the other birds.
(c) The crucifix is exactly perpendicular to the altar.
(d) If Julian were to look into the window of the model, an exact duplicate of the room in which they stand can be seen with every detail intact, even down to the brass candlesticks.

4. When the lawyer enters the room to join in the dialogue, what is established?
(a) The lawyer and the butler are friends.
(b) The lawyer and the butler are brothers.
(c) Julian is a priest.
(d) Julian is not ordained.

5. Why is it appropriate?
(a) They are cardinals, just like the Cardinal.
(b) The Cardinal is no more intelligent than a bird.
(c) The lawyer and the Cardinal are friends that have grown up in the same household.
(d) Because the birds understand each other so much better than would birds of any other kind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is studying this creation from all angles?

2. What happens to the conversation.

3. Who delights in the lawyer's discomfort?

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

5. What is said about the appropriateness of the two cardinals?

(see the answer key)

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