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

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

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

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

5. What becomes evident about the two men as the conversation shifts?
(a) They have known each other since childhood.
(b) They work together.
(c) They have known each other a little while.
(d) They have just met.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom is the larger of the two chairs?

2. Who was Saint Francis?

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

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

5. What does the first man insinuate about the second man?

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