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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what do they continue to rib each other?
(a) Their school yard nicknames.
(b) Their strange clothing.
(c) Their mistresses.
(d) Their love of birds.

2. Not to be outdone, what does the second person sling back?
(a) Mud from the garden.
(b) Comments about the lawyer's family.
(c) Remarks about the lawyer's career.
(d) The name the school children had for the lawyer, Hyena.

3. How does this observer address the man who is cooing at the birds?
(a) Birdlover.
(b) Sissy.
(c) Saint Francis.
(d) Saint Michael.

4. What is said about the appropriateness of the two cardinals?
(a) They are as dull as the Cardinal.
(b) They are best friends, just like the lawyer and Cardinal.
(c) They are the same color as the Cardinal.
(d) There should be two in such close quarters in that particular location.

5. What becomes clearer as the first person becomes more verbal and forthright about the second?
(a) The love.
(b) The connection between the two.
(c) The animosity.
(d) The curiosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Saint Francis?

2. Over what do the two original characters banter a while longer?

3. How does the play open?

4. Why is it appropriate?

5. Who delights in the lawyer's discomfort?

(see the answer key)

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