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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are of the expected variety in a place of this grandeur?
(a) The beautiful, exotic birds flying about.
(b) A great arched doorway and the furnishings.
(c) The beautiful, rare roses.
(d) The hand-embroidered banners hanging along the walls.

2. What is Miss Alice's response when Julian tries to explain to her that he wondered if he imagined so many things or whether so many things he thought had come to play in his imagination?
(a) She suggests that he may just be describing what passes for sanity.
(b) She thinks he is still insane.
(c) She wants to take him back to the asylum.
(d) She finds him a perfect candidate for the priesthood.

3. Why does Miss Alice play this game?
(a) She wants Julian to feel welcome.
(b) She needs some physical activity.
(c) She is bored.
(d) She merely wanted a little lightness to counter the gravity of their encounter, for the transfer of millions is indeed a weighty matter.

4. What does Julian believe about his faith and his sanity?
(a) They are two separate entities.
(b) They are one in the same.
(c) They are weak.
(d) They are strong.

5. Who enters the courtyard through an iron gate and moves quietly toward the man and watches him with mild amusement?
(a) The Cardinal.
(b) Julian.
(c) Miss Alice.
(d) A lawyer.

6. 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?
(a) She argues with him.
(b) She moves on to a new topic.
(c) She does not agree with him.
(d) She will not let go of it.

7. How does Julian describe his loss of faith?
(a) He let contact with his faith slip away, seeding a deep sadness.
(b) He woke up one morning and no longer had faith.
(c) It was a slow, gradual, and painful loss.
(d) He lost his faith when his parents died.

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

9. What is Miss Alice's response when the lawyer proceeds to introduce Julian to her for the first time?
(a) She does not respond.
(b) She responds enthusiastically.
(c) She coldy offers her hand.
(d) She hugs him.

10. About what do they continue to rib each other?
(a) Their love of birds.
(b) Their strange clothing.
(c) Their school yard nicknames.
(d) Their mistresses.

11. Why does Julian ask whether or not someone will soon be available?
(a) To take photographs of him and the birds.
(b) To see him for his appointment.
(c) To confess his sins.
(d) To get a tour of the garden.

12. What does Julian find ironic about staying in the section of the asylum that is for people who are only mildly troubled?
(a) Most of the people there have severe mental illness.
(b) All mental illness is serious.
(c) Those staying in this section had no mental illness.
(d) He never considered the fleeing of faith a mild matter.

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

14. What is the most intriguing element?
(a) The fountain in the middle of the garden.
(b) The crucifix hanging above the altar.
(c) The cardinals flying around.
(d) A huge dollhouse model of the mansion.

15. Why is Julian part of this trio?
(a) They want Julian to feel comfortable around them.
(b) Julian would make a good addition to their group.
(c) The lawyer has such disdain for the Cardinal that the lawyer does not want the Cardinal's personal participation in the activities related to Miss Alice's grant to the church.
(d) They believe Miss Alice would enjoy his company.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Alice say about the chairs in the various rooms?

2. How are the periods of hallucination announced?

3. About what do the lawyer and butler relentlessly question Julian?

4. Why would Julian ask a nurse or one of the attendants, "Could you tell me, did I preach last night?"

5. Why does the lawyer initiate a discussion of his animosity for the Cardinal?

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