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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they wonder if they should tell the Cardinal?
(a) About the model of the mansion.
(b) That the Cardinal will not get any of the money.
(c) That Julian is out of the conspiracy.
(d) About Miss Alice's relationship with Julian.

2. What does the butler do?
(a) Enters and agrees that the model is an extraordinary piece of work.
(b) Dusts the model.
(c) Teases the Cardinal.
(d) Writes down the measurements.

3. How does this scene open?
(a) It is set in the mansion's chapel during a service.
(b) It is set in the mansion's library and opens with no one on stage.
(c) It is set in the Cardinal's inner rooms.
(d) It is set in the mansion's garden at a party.

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

5. About what do the lawyer and butler relentlessly question Julian?
(a) His training in the priesthood.
(b) His interest in birds.
(c) His background.
(d) His relationship with the Cardinal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Alice want to do this for the church?

2. What do the men wonder about the Cardinal, since he is, after all, a man of God, even though he seems to worship the symbol and not the substance?

3. What does the butler pretend?

4. What does the lawyer do when the other two men leave?

5. What does the first man not leave without?

(see the answer key)

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