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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in massive scale?
(a) The room.
(b) The crosses.
(c) The flowers.
(d) The chairs.

2. 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.

3. About what do the lawyer and butler relentlessly question Julian?
(a) His training in the priesthood.
(b) His interest in birds.
(c) His relationship with the Cardinal.
(d) His background.

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

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

6. What does the first man do in an attempt to fend off his feelings about being caught?
(a) He overcompensates with his behavior toward the Cardinal, kneeling to kiss his ring and addressing him in the third person to keep the situation and conversation impersonal.
(b) He runs away.
(c) He argues with the Cardinal.
(d) He begs the Cardinal to leave him alone.

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

8. 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 cardinals control the behavior of the other birds.
(c) The garden is completely symmetrical.
(d) The crucifix is exactly perpendicular to the altar.

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

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

11. What will Julian do for Miss Alice?
(a) Allow her to stay in her home.
(b) Love her.
(c) Train her to be a priest.
(d) Take care of the menial details of her philanthropic bargain.

12. What is Miss Alice's response when the lawyer proceeds to introduce Julian to her for the first time?
(a) She responds enthusiastically.
(b) She coldy offers her hand.
(c) She does not respond.
(d) She hugs him.

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

14. Because the mansion is so large, what must she do?
(a) Hire someone to clean it.
(b) Spend a day in each room to feel that it is used.
(c) Keep track of all the furniture, to make sure none goes missing.
(d) Feel ownership of at least one item in each room.

15. Who delights in the lawyer's discomfort?
(a) Julian.
(b) The birds.
(c) Miss Alice.
(d) The Cardinal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Miss Alice say hello?

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

3. Who is cooing and talking to the birds, trying to engage them to interact with him?

4. Julian says "It is God the mover, not God ______________."

5. What is feminine, but not frilly, decorated in shades of blue?

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