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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the first man not leave without?
(a) Making a rude comment to Miss Alice.
(b) Kissing Miss Alice on the cheek.
(c) A snide comment or two.
(d) Hugging the second man.

2. What does the Butler point out?
(a) The cardinals control the behavior of the other birds.
(b) The garden is completely symmetrical.
(c) 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.
(d) The crucifix is exactly perpendicular to the altar.

3. How does the butler feel about listening to Julian?
(a) Sad.
(b) Enthralled.
(c) Bored.
(d) Nervous.

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

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

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

7. What does Julian confide about a period during his stay at the asylum?
(a) He would not talk to anyone or eat anything.
(b) When he began to hallucinate and withdraw to a point where he was not certain when his mind was tricking him or when it was not.
(c) When he asked to leave, they put him in a single, dark cell.
(d) He fell in love with one of the guards.

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

9. Where does this scene open?
(a) In a library of a mansion.
(b) In the chapel.
(c) In the dining room of a mansion.
(d) In the garden.

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

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

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

13. What does Julian believe must happen in order to make it easier for men to live?
(a) They must pray to God and confess their sins.
(b) They must attend church regularly.
(c) They create a false God in their own image.
(d) They must evangelize.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julian find ironic about staying in the section of the asylum that is for people who are only mildly troubled?

2. What is said about the appropriateness of the two cardinals?

3. What does the first man do in an attempt to fend off his feelings about being caught?

4. Why would Julian ask a nurse or one of the attendants, "Could you tell me, did I preach last night?"

5. What is in massive scale?

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