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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Julian struggle?
(a) Making friends with children at school.
(b) Leaving his wife and child to join the priesthood.
(c) Mentally and spiritually over the Nature of God.
(d) He felt alone growing up in the orphanage.

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

5. Not to be outdone, what does the second person sling back?
(a) Comments about the lawyer's family.
(b) Remarks about the lawyer's career.
(c) The name the school children had for the lawyer, Hyena.
(d) Mud from the garden.

6. Where does this scene open?
(a) In the garden.
(b) In the chapel.
(c) In a library of a mansion.
(d) In the dining room of a mansion.

7. Why is it appropriate?
(a) The lawyer and the Cardinal are friends that have grown up in the same household.
(b) Because the birds understand each other so much better than would birds of any other kind.
(c) They are cardinals, just like the Cardinal.
(d) The Cardinal is no more intelligent than a bird.

8. How does Miss Alice challenge Julian?
(a) To an arm wrestling competition.
(b) She asks him why he is a lay brother and not a priest.
(c) To know more about his life.
(d) To tell him what he thinks of her.

9. How does the butler feel about listening to Julian?
(a) Enthralled.
(b) Bored.
(c) Sad.
(d) Nervous.

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

11. To what building's architecture is this building compared?
(a) A cathedral.
(b) A castle.
(c) A monastery.
(d) A estuary.

12. How does Julian respond to Miss Alice's game?
(a) With embarrassment.
(b) With astonishment.
(c) With anger.
(d) With desire.

13. What does Julian say he heard on that night in the asylum?
(a) Rain falling on the roof.
(b) Cats meowing.
(c) Cries or sobbing.
(d) Screaming.

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

15. To what are the second man's words compared?
(a) Brown, sticky, smelly mud.
(b) The exaggerated sneer of the animal in question.
(c) A growl.
(d) Nails down a chalkboard.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. " God the creator, not the God _______________," he says.

3. How does the second person make his insult more insulting?

4. What species of bird is in the birdcage?

5. How does Miss Alice say hello?

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