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

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

3. Over what do the two original characters banter a while longer?
(a) Their careers.
(b) Each other's childhood nicknames.
(c) Miss Alice's purpose for her donation.
(d) The vice that money can be.

4. What does Julian confide about a period during his stay at the asylum?
(a) When he asked to leave, they put him in a single, dark cell.
(b) 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.
(c) He fell in love with one of the guards.
(d) He would not talk to anyone or eat anything.

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 moves on to a new topic.
(c) She argues with him.
(d) She does not agree with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who delights in the lawyer's discomfort?

2. What is Julian?

3. What becomes evident about the two men as the conversation shifts?

4. Who does Julian say he found crying, "Help me, help me... help me, oh God, God, help me... oh help, help?"

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

(see the answer key)

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