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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. What would she like to do for the church for twenty years?

2. What does Julian believe about his faith and his sanity?

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

4. What is Julian?

5. Why does Julian ask whether or not someone will soon be available?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the lawyer and Cardinal doing, as the play begins?

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

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

4. What does Julian realize about the model of the mansion?

5. Describe the setting.

6. What is happening to Alice as the scene begins?

7. What does Miss Alice reveal to Julian?

8. What does the lawyer do to Miss Alice, when the other two men leave?

9. Describe the upstairs sitting room of the castle.

10. What had Julian assumed about their departure? What does he now realize?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Cardinal and the lawyer have known each other since childhood.

Part 1) How do you know this?

Part 2) Describe their relationship. Why do they act this way towards each other?

Part 3) Compare and contrast these two characters.

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

Julian is intrigued by the model of the mansion.

Part 1) Why is the model unique?

Part 2) What do he and the butler discuss, regarding this model?

Part 3) How is this model significant?

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