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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 happens to the conversation.
(a) It turns into a brawl.
(b) It gets even uglier.
(c) It suddenly ends.
(d) It settles down.

2. How does Julian respond?
(a) He tells them all he knows about birds.
(b) That he is friends with the Cardinal.
(c) With the details of training to become a priest.
(d) By saying that the past six years of his life were blank but not black.

3. Why does the lawyer comment to Miss Alice, "that will be our bird of prey?"
(a) To the birds flying around outside.
(b) The Cardinal's innocence.
(c) To the butler eavesdropping.
(d) To a knock at the door.

4. What is Julian?
(a) A member of the church choir.
(b) A priest.
(c) A lay brother.
(d) An evangelist.

5. How are the periods of hallucination announced?
(a) By a ringing in the ears.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Flashes of light.
(d) The sound of choirs singing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who delights in the lawyer's discomfort?

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

3. Who does Julian describe as a quiet, plain woman with soft features; one year or so on either side of forty, married to the owner of a dry goods store?

4. Who is cooing and talking to the birds, trying to engage them to interact with him?

5. What becomes evident about the two men as the conversation shifts?

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