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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it appropriate?
(a) The Cardinal is no more intelligent than a bird.
(b) The lawyer and the Cardinal are friends that have grown up in the same household.
(c) They are cardinals, just like the Cardinal.
(d) Because the birds understand each other so much better than would birds of any other kind.

2. To what topic of discomfort does Julian move?
(a) His sore muscles from riding.
(b) The excess found in his new life at the estate.
(c) The chance he may leave her.
(d) His desire to marry Miss Alice.

3. What does the lawyer do to the butler?
(a) He hits him.
(b) He argues with him.
(c) He chastises him.
(d) He glares at him.

4. Who is cooing and talking to the birds, trying to engage them to interact with him?
(a) The Cardinal.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) Julian.
(d) Miss Alice.

5. In what do the two men then engage?
(a) A fight.
(b) A debate.
(c) A game of chess.
(d) A role-playing exercise.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Miss Alice say hello?

2. What does Miss Alice call out, as she drops her head back?

3. What does Miss Alice think about the lawyer's hair on his back, the fat between his shoulder blades, even his genitalia?

4. What does the butler do?

5. What about the butler infuriates the lawyer even further?

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