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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Alice say about the chairs in the various rooms?
(a) She purshased each one, herself.
(b) They are all antiques.
(c) There is a chair in each room that is hers and hers alone.
(d) They are by different makers.

2. 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.

3. How does this observer address the man who is cooing at the birds?
(a) Sissy.
(b) Saint Michael.
(c) Saint Francis.
(d) Birdlover.

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

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

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 hand-embroidered banners hanging along the walls.
(d) The beautiful, exotic birds flying about.

7. Julian is intrigued by the butler's coincidence. How does the Butler feel?
(a) Unsure about Julian.
(b) Sad.
(c) Just as excited.
(d) Nonplussed about almost everything.

8. " God the creator, not the God _______________," he says.
(a) Of creation.
(b) Who hates.
(c) Created by man.
(d) Who destroys.

9. Why does Julian ask whether or not someone will soon be available?
(a) To get a tour of the garden.
(b) To see him for his appointment.
(c) To take photographs of him and the birds.
(d) To confess his sins.

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

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

12. Why does Alice want to do this for the church?
(a) She wants to give back to the needy.
(b) She loves to sew.
(c) She loves children.
(d) She is burdened with too much wealth.

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

14. What does Miss Alice do when Julian tries to explain one more time that there is nothing much to tell, and it is simply a matter of his faith in God leaving him, and he committed himself to an asylum?
(a) She will not let go of it.
(b) She does not agree with him.
(c) She argues with him.
(d) She moves on to a new topic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julian say when Miss Alice invites him to talk about himself?

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

3. What do the two discuss about the details of this creation?

4. 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?

5. What does the first man not leave without?

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