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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does this scene open?
(a) In the garden.
(b) In the dining room of a mansion.
(c) In a library of a mansion.
(d) In the chapel.

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

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

4. Because the mansion is so large, what must she do?
(a) Spend a day in each room to feel that it is used.
(b) Feel ownership of at least one item in each room.
(c) Keep track of all the furniture, to make sure none goes missing.
(d) Hire someone to clean it.

5. What, at last, occurs?
(a) A fight.
(b) They stop fighting and apologize.
(c) They cry and hug.
(d) A break in this ugly dialogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two discuss?

2. 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?

3. Julian says "It is God the mover, not God ______________."

4. How does Miss Alice challenge Julian?

5. What does the first man do in an attempt to fend off his feelings about being caught?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is happening to Julian?

2. What does Julian do when the lawyer moves to take his leave?

3. How does Julian feel about the way the conversation with the butler is going? What does he want to know?

4. What does the butler say about the wine cellar?

5. How is Miss Alice, when she enters the scene?

6. How does the lawyer react when he sees the Cardinal? What does the Cardinal explain to the lawyer?

7. What does Julian believe?

8. What do the two men relish?

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

10. What does the lawyer do when he is satisfied with Julian's response?

(see the answer keys)

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