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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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) His cellmate.
(c) A woman in the asylum who thinks she is the Virgin Mary.
(d) A woman he befriended.

9. What are both the butler and the lawyer, who have known each other for some time, quite eager to do?
(a) Leave Julian alone.
(b) Become friends with Julian.
(c) Find Miss Alice and introduce her to Julian.
(d) Pry and prey on this fresh specimen.

10. What does the first man do in an attempt to fend off his feelings about being caught?
(a) He runs away.
(b) He argues with the Cardinal.
(c) He begs the Cardinal to leave him alone.
(d) 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.

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

12. Why does the lawyer comment to Miss Alice, "that will be our bird of prey?"
(a) The Cardinal's innocence.
(b) To a knock at the door.
(c) To the birds flying around outside.
(d) To the butler eavesdropping.

13. What happens to the conversation.
(a) It settles down.
(b) It gets even uglier.
(c) It turns into a brawl.
(d) It suddenly ends.

14. 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 is surprised she has no nurse to assist her.
(c) He wonders why she is not in a facility for the elderly.
(d) He did not realize how sorry he would feel for her.

15. Why would Julian ask a nurse or one of the attendants, "Could you tell me, did I preach last night?"
(a) He wanted to know what he had preached.
(b) To see what they thought about it.
(c) To make sure he had arrived to preach.
(d) To sort out his imaginings from what was real.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Julian part of this trio?

2. For whom is the larger of the two chairs?

3. What question does Miss Alice ask that shocks Julian?

4. How does this observer address the man who is cooing at the birds?

5. When the lawyer enters the room to join in the dialogue, what is established?

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