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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Butler point out?
(a) The garden is completely symmetrical.
(b) The cardinals control the behavior of the other birds.
(c) The crucifix is exactly perpendicular to the altar.
(d) If Julian were to look into the window of the model, an exact duplicate of the room in which they stand can be seen with every detail intact, even down to the brass candlesticks.

2. " God the creator, not the God _______________," he says.
(a) Of creation.
(b) Who destroys.
(c) Who hates.
(d) Created by man.

3. What happens to the conversation.
(a) It suddenly ends.
(b) It turns into a brawl.
(c) It settles down.
(d) It gets even uglier.

4. Why does the lawyer initiate a discussion of his animosity for the Cardinal?
(a) He cannot contain his hatred.
(b) He knows Julian is friends with the Cardinal.
(c) He is satisfied with Julian's information.
(d) He is bored by Julian's responses.

5. What does the butler share about himself with Julian?
(a) His name is also Julian.
(b) His name, as well as his occupation, is Butler.
(c) He does not enjoy being a butler.
(d) He is at Julian's service.

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

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

8. How does the play open?
(a) In Miss Alice's garden.
(b) In a mansion.
(c) In a Catholic Church.
(d) In the garden of a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

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

10. What does the first man insinuate about the second man?
(a) The inappropriate relationship between the Cardinal and Miss Alice.
(b) An inappropriate relationship between the Cardinal and his assistant.
(c) The inappropriate relationship between Miss Alice and the assistant.
(d) The inappropriate relationship between the lawyer and Miss Alice.

11. What would Miss Alice like to do for the church?
(a) Donate her time to a charity.
(b) Teach Sunday school.
(c) Give a huge donation.
(d) Make new clothing for the priests.

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

13. Not to be outdone, what does the second person sling back?
(a) Mud from the garden.
(b) Remarks about the lawyer's career.
(c) Comments about the lawyer's family.
(d) The name the school children had for the lawyer, Hyena.

14. To what are the second man's words compared?
(a) Brown, sticky, smelly mud.
(b) A growl.
(c) Nails down a chalkboard.
(d) The exaggerated sneer of the animal in question.

15. When the lawyer enters the room to join in the dialogue, what is established?
(a) The lawyer and the butler are friends.
(b) Julian is a priest.
(c) Julian is not ordained.
(d) The lawyer and the butler are brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the butler do?

2. For whom is the larger of the two chairs?

3. Over what do the two original characters banter a while longer?

4. What is said about the appropriateness of the two cardinals?

5. How does Julian respond to Miss Alice's game?

(see the answer keys)

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