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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julian respond?

2. What happens to the conversation.

3. Why does Miss Alice begin a flirtatious conversation asking if he had been intimidated by herself or the lawyer, and if he had liked the butler?

4. What does the butler do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the lawyer enter the room?

2. How does their animosity become clearer?

3. What is the most intriguing element of the room?

4. How does Julian feel about the way the conversation with the butler is going? What does he want to know?

5. What does the lawyer do when he is satisfied with Julian's response?

6. What happens after the lawyer backs Miss Alice against the wall?

7. What does the lawyer say how the Cardinal's caged birds?

8. What does the butler carry into the library?

9. How does Miss Alice feel about her chairs?

10. What do Julian and the butler say about this creation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The butler is nonplussed about most things.

Part 1) Prove this statement.

Part 2) What is his relationship with the other characters.

Part 3) Based on what you know of him, what might be his thoughts on this conspiracy?

Essay Topic 2

The conspirators leave Julian to die.

Part 1) Who kills him? Why is he killed?

Part 2) Why do they leave him to die?

Part 3) What is the author's purpose for killing this character? What message does this send to the audience?

Essay Topic 3

Most of the play takes place in a mansion.

Part 1) Who lives in this mansion? What is odd about this person?

Part 2) How does the decor reflect the mansion's owner?

Part 3) What is the significance of this mansion?

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