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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What will Julian do for Miss Alice?
(a) Love her.
(b) Take care of the menial details of her philanthropic bargain.
(c) Train her to be a priest.
(d) Allow her to stay in her home.

5. What, at last, occurs?
(a) They cry and hug.
(b) A fight.
(c) A break in this ugly dialogue.
(d) They stop fighting and apologize.

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

7. About what do they continue to rib each other?
(a) Their strange clothing.
(b) Their mistresses.
(c) Their school yard nicknames.
(d) Their love of birds.

8. 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 does not agree with him.
(b) She moves on to a new topic.
(c) She will not let go of it.
(d) She argues with him.

9. Why does Miss Alice play this game?
(a) She is bored.
(b) She merely wanted a little lightness to counter the gravity of their encounter, for the transfer of millions is indeed a weighty matter.
(c) She wants Julian to feel welcome.
(d) She needs some physical activity.

10. With what is Julian not comfortable?
(a) The detailed discussion of the garden's plant varieties.
(b) The many bird species in the estuary.
(c) This conceptual style of conversation.
(d) The discussion of the crucifix.

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

12. 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 has a wife and child in the country.
(c) He was orphaned as a child.
(d) He grew up in London.

13. How do the two continue to insult one another?
(a) They do so with swinging fists.
(b) Each man begins to question the intimate relations of the other's mother and their resulting parentage.
(c) They whisper nasty remarks under their breath.
(d) They glare at one another.

14. Why does the lawyer initiate a discussion of his animosity for the Cardinal?
(a) He is bored by Julian's responses.
(b) He cannot contain his hatred.
(c) He knows Julian is friends with the Cardinal.
(d) He is satisfied with Julian's information.

15. What does Julian say when Miss Alice invites him to talk about himself?
(a) He gladly tells her his life story.
(b) He is very self deprecating and defers to the background information they already have on him, complete with the missing six blank years.
(c) He is open and honest.
(d) He says nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes evident about the two men as the conversation shifts?

2. What does Julian say he heard on that night in the asylum?

3. Who is cooing and talking to the birds, trying to engage them to interact with him?

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

5. 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?

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