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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the most intriguing element?
(a) A huge dollhouse model of the mansion.
(b) The cardinals flying around.
(c) The fountain in the middle of the garden.
(d) The crucifix hanging above the altar.

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

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

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

6. What does the butler do at the sound of the chime?
(a) He moves to escort Julian to see Miss Alice.
(b) He answers the door.
(c) He tells Julian it is time to leave.
(d) He leaves the room.

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

8. Why is Julian confused about Miss Alice's deafness, withered face, and gray and white matted hair?
(a) He wonders why she is not in a facility for the elderly.
(b) He is surprised she has no nurse to assist her.
(c) He did not realize how sorry he would feel for her.
(d) He was told by the Cardinal that the woman was neither ill nor old.

9. How are the periods of hallucination announced?
(a) The sound of choirs singing.
(b) Flashes of light.
(c) By a ringing in the ears.
(d) Darkness.

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

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

12. What kind of conversation does the trio enter?
(a) Of mixed messages and misunderstandings.
(b) Banter and jabs at each other's looks and interests.
(c) A light-hearted one.
(d) A serious one.

13. Julian says "It is God the mover, not God ______________."
(a) The maker.
(b) The puppet.
(c) The shaker.
(d) The frozen.

14. What question does Miss Alice ask that shocks Julian?
(a) Why do you want to be a priest?
(b) Have you slept with many women?
(c) Do you find me attractive?
(d) Will you sleep with me?

15. 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 hugs him.
(c) She coldy offers her hand.
(d) She does not respond.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are both the butler and the lawyer, who have known each other for some time, quite eager to do?

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

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

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

5. About what do they continue to rib each other?

(see the answer keys)

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