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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the butler do?
(a) Teases the Cardinal.
(b) Dusts the model.
(c) Writes down the measurements.
(d) Enters and agrees that the model is an extraordinary piece of work.

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

3. What would she like to do for the church for twenty years?
(a) Teach Sunday school every week.
(b) Make a new robe for the priest every year.
(c) Give one hundred million dollars a year.
(d) Spend one day a month working for a charity.

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

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

6. What does Julian believe about his faith and his sanity?
(a) They are two separate entities.
(b) They are strong.
(c) They are weak.
(d) They are one in the same.

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

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

9. How does Julian describe his loss of faith?
(a) He lost his faith when his parents died.
(b) He woke up one morning and no longer had faith.
(c) It was a slow, gradual, and painful loss.
(d) He let contact with his faith slip away, seeding a deep sadness.

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

11. Who enters the courtyard through an iron gate and moves quietly toward the man and watches him with mild amusement?
(a) Julian.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) The Cardinal.
(d) Miss Alice.

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

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

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

15. How does the second person react?
(a) With joy.
(b) With skepticism.
(c) With surprise.
(d) With tears.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Saint Francis?

2. What kind of conversation does the trio enter?

3. What does Miss Alice say about the chairs in the various rooms?

4. What does Julian find ironic about staying in the section of the asylum that is for people who are only mildly troubled?

5. What will Julian do for Miss Alice?

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