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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. To what are the second man's words compared?
(a) The exaggerated sneer of the animal in question.
(b) Brown, sticky, smelly mud.
(c) Nails down a chalkboard.
(d) A growl.

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

3. Who delights in the lawyer's discomfort?
(a) The Cardinal.
(b) Miss Alice.
(c) Julian.
(d) The birds.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What species of bird is in the birdcage?

2. How does the man react at having been discovered cooing to the caged birds?

3. Who enters the courtyard through an iron gate and moves quietly toward the man and watches him with mild amusement?

4. What does the first man not leave without?

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

(see the answer key)

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