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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. 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 see what they thought about it.
(c) To sort out his imaginings from what was real.
(d) To make sure he had arrived to preach.

2. What would Miss Alice like to do for the church?
(a) Make new clothing for the priests.
(b) Give a huge donation.
(c) Donate her time to a charity.
(d) Teach Sunday school.

3. How does this observer address the man who is cooing at the birds?
(a) Sissy.
(b) Birdlover.
(c) Saint Michael.
(d) Saint Francis.

4. " God the creator, not the God _______________," he says.
(a) Of creation.
(b) Who destroys.
(c) Who hates.
(d) Created by man.

5. What do the two discuss about the details of this creation?
(a) Whether or not there might be another model of the room inside the model's library, and so on and so on.
(b) When the church was built.
(c) Whether or not there is a more beautiful garden in the country.
(d) How many birds are in the estuary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the butler do?

2. With what is Julian not comfortable?

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

4. What does Julian confide about a period during his stay at the asylum?

5. To what building's architecture is this building compared?

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