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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What question does Miss Alice ask that shocks Julian?
(a) Will you sleep with me?
(b) Have you slept with many women?
(c) Why do you want to be a priest?
(d) Do you find me attractive?

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

4. What does Julian think about how men use God?
(a) He tries not to think about it.
(b) He struggles with it.
(c) He is not bothered by it.
(d) He is outraged by it.

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

6. What are of the expected variety in a place of this grandeur?
(a) A great arched doorway and the furnishings.
(b) The beautiful, rare roses.
(c) The beautiful, exotic birds flying about.
(d) The hand-embroidered banners hanging along the walls.

7. Why is Julian confused about Miss Alice's deafness, withered face, and gray and white matted hair?
(a) He was told by the Cardinal that the woman was neither ill nor old.
(b) He wonders why she is not in a facility for the elderly.
(c) He is surprised she has no nurse to assist her.
(d) He did not realize how sorry he would feel for her.

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

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

10. What is Miss Alice's response when Julian tries to explain to her that he wondered if he imagined so many things or whether so many things he thought had come to play in his imagination?
(a) She suggests that he may just be describing what passes for sanity.
(b) She thinks he is still insane.
(c) She wants to take him back to the asylum.
(d) She finds him a perfect candidate for the priesthood.

11. What do the two discuss?
(a) The detail of the crucifix.
(b) The beauty of the flowers.
(c) The merits of the model, as well as the intention and purpose of having such a work created.
(d) The colors of the birds.

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

13. 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) He never considered the fleeing of faith a mild matter.
(c) All mental illness is serious.
(d) Most of the people there have severe mental illness.

14. How does the play open?
(a) In Miss Alice's garden.
(b) In a Catholic Church.
(c) In a mansion.
(d) In the garden of a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

15. What does the Butler point out?
(a) The garden is completely symmetrical.
(b) 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.
(c) The crucifix is exactly perpendicular to the altar.
(d) The cardinals control the behavior of the other birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julian describe his loss of faith?

2. Why does Miss Alice play this game?

3. Why does Miss Alice begin a flirtatious conversation asking if he had been intimidated by herself or the lawyer, and if he had liked the butler?

4. What is said about the appropriateness of the two cardinals?

5. Why does Alice want to do this for the church?

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