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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Julian find ironic about staying in the section of the asylum that is for people who are only mildly troubled?
(a) Those staying in this section had no mental illness.
(b) All mental illness is serious.
(c) He never considered the fleeing of faith a mild matter.
(d) Most of the people there have severe mental illness.

2. What becomes evident about the two men as the conversation shifts?
(a) They work together.
(b) They have known each other since childhood.
(c) They have known each other a little while.
(d) They have just met.

3. What is the most intriguing element?
(a) The crucifix hanging above the altar.
(b) A huge dollhouse model of the mansion.
(c) The fountain in the middle of the garden.
(d) The cardinals flying around.

4. What does Julian admit to the butler when the lawyer leaves?
(a) The blank six years of his life were spent in an insane asylum.
(b) He was orphaned as a child.
(c) He grew up in London.
(d) He has a wife and child in the country.

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

6. What does Julian believe must happen in order to make it easier for men to live?
(a) They must evangelize.
(b) They create a false God in their own image.
(c) They must pray to God and confess their sins.
(d) They must attend church regularly.

7. For whom is the larger of the two chairs?
(a) The lawyer.
(b) His Eminence.
(c) Miss Alice.
(d) The Pope.

8. 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 as dull as the Cardinal.
(d) They are the same color as the Cardinal.

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

10. With what is Julian not comfortable?
(a) The detailed discussion of the garden's plant varieties.
(b) This conceptual style of conversation.
(c) The many bird species in the estuary.
(d) The discussion of the crucifix.

11. Who does Julian say he found crying, "Help me, help me... help me, oh God, God, help me... oh help, help?"
(a) The woman who thinks she is the Virgin Mary.
(b) The guard.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) His wife.

12. Julian says "It is God the mover, not God ______________."
(a) The puppet.
(b) The shaker.
(c) The maker.
(d) The frozen.

13. What kind of conversation does the trio enter?
(a) Of mixed messages and misunderstandings.
(b) A light-hearted one.
(c) Banter and jabs at each other's looks and interests.
(d) A serious one.

14. When the lawyer enters the room to join in the dialogue, what is established?
(a) The lawyer and the butler are brothers.
(b) The lawyer and the butler are friends.
(c) Julian is a priest.
(d) Julian is not ordained.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the scene end?

2. Because the mansion is so large, what must she do?

3. Who does Julian describe as a quiet, plain woman with soft features; one year or so on either side of forty, married to the owner of a dry goods store?

4. How are the periods of hallucination announced?

5. What does Julian say he heard on that night in the asylum?

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