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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Butler point out?
(a) If Julian were to look into the window of the model, an exact duplicate of the room in which they stand can be seen with every detail intact, even down to the brass candlesticks.
(b) The crucifix is exactly perpendicular to the altar.
(c) The garden is completely symmetrical.
(d) The cardinals control the behavior of the other birds.

3. Who was Saint Francis?
(a) A man who hunted wild animals.
(b) A pope.
(c) A friend to all animals who often talked to creatures, even birds of the sky.
(d) A martyr burned at the stake.

4. Why does Julian ask whether or not someone will soon be available?
(a) To confess his sins.
(b) To get a tour of the garden.
(c) To take photographs of him and the birds.
(d) To see him for his appointment.

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

6. What is said about the appropriateness of the two cardinals?
(a) There should be two in such close quarters in that particular location.
(b) They are as dull as the Cardinal.
(c) They are the same color as the Cardinal.
(d) They are best friends, just like the lawyer and Cardinal.

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

8. What does the first man not leave without?
(a) A snide comment or two.
(b) Kissing Miss Alice on the cheek.
(c) Making a rude comment to Miss Alice.
(d) Hugging the second man.

9. What does Julian say when Miss Alice invites him to talk about himself?
(a) He says nothing.
(b) He gladly tells her his life story.
(c) He is open and honest.
(d) He is very self deprecating and defers to the background information they already have on him, complete with the missing six blank years.

10. Who is studying this creation from all angles?
(a) The lawyer.
(b) Miss Alice.
(c) The Cardinal.
(d) Julian.

11. Who is cooing and talking to the birds, trying to engage them to interact with him?
(a) The Cardinal.
(b) Julian.
(c) Miss Alice.
(d) A lawyer.

12. 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?
(a) A woman he befriended.
(b) A woman in the asylum who thinks she is the Virgin Mary.
(c) His cellmate.
(d) A woman that worked at the asylum.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Julian is intrigued by the butler's coincidence. How does the Butler feel?

2. How do the two continue to insult one another?

3. Why is Julian confused about Miss Alice's deafness, withered face, and gray and white matted hair?

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

5. How does the play open?

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