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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the second person make his insult more insulting?
(a) He throws more mud.
(b) He makes the same comment over and over again.
(c) He draws it out in his speech dramatically.
(d) She throws more mud.

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

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

6. How does the man react at having been discovered cooing to the caged birds?
(a) Not surprised.
(b) Sad.
(c) Angry.
(d) Flustered and a bit embarrassed.

7. What does the first man insinuate about the second man?
(a) An inappropriate relationship between the Cardinal and his assistant.
(b) The inappropriate relationship between the Cardinal and Miss Alice.
(c) The inappropriate relationship between Miss Alice and the assistant.
(d) The inappropriate relationship between the lawyer and Miss Alice.

8. Not to be outdone, what does the second person sling back?
(a) Mud from the garden.
(b) Comments about the lawyer's family.
(c) Remarks about the lawyer's career.
(d) The name the school children had for the lawyer, Hyena.

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

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

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

12. What would Miss Alice like to do for the church?
(a) Donate her time to a charity.
(b) Teach Sunday school.
(c) Make new clothing for the priests.
(d) Give a huge donation.

13. What is feminine, but not frilly, decorated in shades of blue?
(a) The dining room.
(b) The carriage.
(c) Miss Alice's dress.
(d) An upstairs sitting room of the castle.

14. How does Miss Alice challenge Julian?
(a) To an arm wrestling competition.
(b) She asks him why he is a lay brother and not a priest.
(c) To tell him what he thinks of her.
(d) To know more about his life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the second person react?

2. What does the butler do at the sound of the chime?

3. Who does Julian say he found crying, "Help me, help me... help me, oh God, God, help me... oh help, help?"

4. Why does the lawyer initiate a discussion of his animosity for the Cardinal?

5. What do the two discuss?

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