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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Julian describe his loss of faith?
(a) He let contact with his faith slip away, seeding a deep sadness.
(b) He lost his faith when his parents died.
(c) It was a slow, gradual, and painful loss.
(d) He woke up one morning and no longer had faith.

3. How does the scene end?
(a) The lawyer goes back to talking to the birds.
(b) Miss Alice asks the birds to help her deal with the plans she has in mind.
(c) As the Cardinal coos to the birds, asking if they are able to comfort each other.
(d) The lawyer, Cardinal, and Miss Alice plot.

4. How does Julian respond?
(a) He tells them all he knows about birds.
(b) With the details of training to become a priest.
(c) That he is friends with the Cardinal.
(d) By saying that the past six years of his life were blank but not black.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the periods of hallucination announced?

2. Who is studying this creation from all angles?

3. What does the first man insinuate about the second man?

4. Why is Julian part of this trio?

5. How does Miss Alice challenge Julian?

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