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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 a priest.
(d) Julian is not ordained.

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

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

6. What are both the butler and the lawyer, who have known each other for some time, quite eager to do?
(a) Pry and prey on this fresh specimen.
(b) Find Miss Alice and introduce her to Julian.
(c) Become friends with Julian.
(d) Leave Julian alone.

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

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

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

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

11. How does Julian respond?
(a) By saying that the past six years of his life were blank but not black.
(b) He tells them all he knows about birds.
(c) With the details of training to become a priest.
(d) That he is friends with the Cardinal.

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

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

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

15. What becomes clearer as the first person becomes more verbal and forthright about the second?
(a) The animosity.
(b) The curiosity.
(c) The connection between the two.
(d) The love.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julian respond to Miss Alice's game?

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

3. Not to be outdone, what does the second person sling back?

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

5. Why is Julian part of this trio?

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