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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the lawyer initiate a discussion of his animosity for the Cardinal?
(a) He is satisfied with Julian's information.
(b) He knows Julian is friends with the Cardinal.
(c) He is bored by Julian's responses.
(d) He cannot contain his hatred.

2. Of what does Miss Alice remind him?
(a) He will never be a priest.
(b) He cannot run away.
(c) He is serving.
(d) He will marry her.

3. What would she like to do for the church for twenty years?
(a) Give one hundred million dollars a year.
(b) Teach Sunday school every week.
(c) Spend one day a month working for a charity.
(d) Make a new robe for the priest every year.

4. What does Julian admit to the butler when the lawyer leaves?
(a) He has a wife and child in the country.
(b) The blank six years of his life were spent in an insane asylum.
(c) He grew up in London.
(d) He was orphaned as a child.

5. What, at last, occurs?
(a) They stop fighting and apologize.
(b) A break in this ugly dialogue.
(c) A fight.
(d) They cry and hug.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Miss Alice's behavior change when the lawyer relentlessly pursues her and backs her against a wall?

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

3. Why does Miss Alice begin a flirtatious conversation asking if he had been intimidated by herself or the lawyer, and if he had liked the butler?

4. How does the second person react?

5. What does Julian believe must happen in order to make it easier for men to live?

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