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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the butler do at the sound of the chime?
(a) He tells Julian it is time to leave.
(b) He answers the door.
(c) He moves to escort Julian to see Miss Alice.
(d) He leaves the room.

2. Who was Saint Francis?
(a) A friend to all animals who often talked to creatures, even birds of the sky.
(b) A martyr burned at the stake.
(c) A pope.
(d) A man who hunted wild animals.

3. Why is it appropriate?
(a) Because the birds understand each other so much better than would birds of any other kind.
(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) They are cardinals, just like the Cardinal.

4. How does the second person react?
(a) With skepticism.
(b) With joy.
(c) With tears.
(d) With surprise.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Miss Alice do when Julian tries to explain one more time that there is nothing much to tell, and it is simply a matter of his faith in God leaving him, and he committed himself to an asylum?

5. Why would Julian ask a nurse or one of the attendants, "Could you tell me, did I preach last night?"

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