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

2. What does Julian confide about a period during his stay at the asylum?
(a) When he began to hallucinate and withdraw to a point where he was not certain when his mind was tricking him or when it was not.
(b) When he asked to leave, they put him in a single, dark cell.
(c) He fell in love with one of the guards.
(d) He would not talk to anyone or eat anything.

3. Why would Julian ask a nurse or one of the attendants, "Could you tell me, did I preach last night?"
(a) He wanted to know what he had preached.
(b) To make sure he had arrived to preach.
(c) To sort out his imaginings from what was real.
(d) To see what they thought about it.

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

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