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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is cooing and talking to the birds, trying to engage them to interact with him?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) Julian.
(c) The Cardinal.
(d) Miss Alice.

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

3. Julian is intrigued by the butler's coincidence. How does the Butler feel?
(a) Just as excited.
(b) Nonplussed about almost everything.
(c) Unsure about Julian.
(d) Sad.

4. To what building's architecture is this building compared?
(a) A estuary.
(b) A monastery.
(c) A castle.
(d) A cathedral.

5. Why does Julian ask whether or not someone will soon be available?
(a) To get a tour of the garden.
(b) To see him for his appointment.
(c) To confess his sins.
(d) To take photographs of him and the birds.

6. What species of bird is in the birdcage?
(a) Sparrows.
(b) Cardinal.
(c) Wrens.
(d) Doves.

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

8. What happens to the conversation.
(a) It turns into a brawl.
(b) It gets even uglier.
(c) It settles down.
(d) It suddenly ends.

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

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

11. What does Julian say he heard on that night in the asylum?
(a) Rain falling on the roof.
(b) Screaming.
(c) Cats meowing.
(d) Cries or sobbing.

12. 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 glare at one another.
(d) They whisper nasty remarks under their breath.

13. 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?
(a) She wants to take him back to the asylum.
(b) She thinks he is still insane.
(c) She finds him a perfect candidate for the priesthood.
(d) She suggests that he may just be describing what passes for sanity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is feminine, but not frilly, decorated in shades of blue?

2. How does Julian describe his loss of faith?

3. Who was Saint Francis?

4. For whom is the larger of the two chairs?

5. Where does this scene open?

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