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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Julian think about how men use God?
(a) He struggles with it.
(b) He is not bothered by it.
(c) He tries not to think about it.
(d) He is outraged by it.

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

3. 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.

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

5. What is feminine, but not frilly, decorated in shades of blue?
(a) An upstairs sitting room of the castle.
(b) The carriage.
(c) The dining room.
(d) Miss Alice's dress.

6. What is in massive scale?
(a) The crosses.
(b) The room.
(c) The chairs.
(d) The flowers.

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

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

9. Who is studying this creation from all angles?
(a) Miss Alice.
(b) The Cardinal.
(c) Julian.
(d) The lawyer.

10. What is said about the appropriateness of the two cardinals?
(a) They are best friends, just like the lawyer and Cardinal.
(b) There should be two in such close quarters in that particular location.
(c) They are the same color as the Cardinal.
(d) They are as dull as the Cardinal.

11. 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 hugs him.
(c) She coldy offers her hand.
(d) She responds enthusiastically.

12. How do the two continue to insult one another?
(a) Each man begins to question the intimate relations of the other's mother and their resulting parentage.
(b) They glare at one another.
(c) They do so with swinging fists.
(d) They whisper nasty remarks under their breath.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julian say when Miss Alice invites him to talk about himself?

2. What, at last, occurs?

3. Why does the lawyer comment to Miss Alice, "that will be our bird of prey?"

4. Julian is intrigued by the butler's coincidence. How does the Butler feel?

5. Who was Saint Francis?

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