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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Because the mansion is so large, what must she do?
(a) Feel ownership of at least one item in each room.
(b) Spend a day in each room to feel that it is used.
(c) Keep track of all the furniture, to make sure none goes missing.
(d) Hire someone to clean it.

3. How does the man react at having been discovered cooing to the caged birds?
(a) Sad.
(b) Angry.
(c) Flustered and a bit embarrassed.
(d) Not surprised.

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

5. 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?
(a) His cellmate.
(b) A woman in the asylum who thinks she is the Virgin Mary.
(c) A woman he befriended.
(d) A woman that worked at the asylum.

6. What does the first man not leave without?
(a) A snide comment or two.
(b) Making a rude comment to Miss Alice.
(c) Hugging the second man.
(d) Kissing Miss Alice on the cheek.

7. How does the butler feel about listening to Julian?
(a) Bored.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Sad.
(d) Enthralled.

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

9. Where does this scene open?
(a) In the chapel.
(b) In the garden.
(c) In the dining room of a mansion.
(d) In a library of a mansion.

10. What are both the butler and the lawyer, who have known each other for some time, quite eager to do?
(a) Become friends with Julian.
(b) Pry and prey on this fresh specimen.
(c) Leave Julian alone.
(d) Find Miss Alice and introduce her to Julian.

11. How did Julian struggle?
(a) Leaving his wife and child to join the priesthood.
(b) Mentally and spiritually over the Nature of God.
(c) He felt alone growing up in the orphanage.
(d) Making friends with children at school.

12. 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.

13. What do the two discuss about the details of this creation?
(a) When the church was built.
(b) How many birds are in the estuary.
(c) Whether or not there is a more beautiful garden in the country.
(d) Whether or not there might be another model of the room inside the model's library, and so on and so on.

14. To what building's architecture is this building compared?
(a) A monastery.
(b) A castle.
(c) A cathedral.
(d) A estuary.

15. What becomes clearer as the first person becomes more verbal and forthright about the second?
(a) The curiosity.
(b) The connection between the two.
(c) The animosity.
(d) The love.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Julian?

3. About what do they continue to rib each other?

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

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