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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the butler say about Miss Alice?
(a) She is missing.
(b) She will rise above her human qualities and do her job.
(c) She is upset.
(d) She is in love with Julian.

2. What does Julian want to do?
(a) Run away.
(b) Marry Miss Alice.
(c) Serve in some way and be forgotten.
(d) Become a priest.

3. What does the lawyer do to the butler?
(a) He chastises him.
(b) He argues with him.
(c) He glares at him.
(d) He hits him.

4. To what does the poem lead?
(a) A kiss shared between the couple.
(b) An awkward moment.
(c) Miss Alice begging Julian to marry her.
(d) Their conversation of early erotic musings and mental imagery of sex play.

5. What does the butler say as he enters the room?
(a) Julian has left the wine cellar and would be joining them presently.
(b) Julian does not want to see them.
(c) Julian has run away.
(d) Julian will no longer be seeing them this evening.

6. Why do the butler and Julian run to the chapel?
(a) The movement was in the chapel.
(b) It is the most beautiful location.
(c) It is the chapel that is engulfed in flames.
(d) Julian forgot a gift for Miss Alice.

7. What does Miss Alice do when Julian is still in his dreamlike state, musing on the greatness of sacrifice?
(a) Miss Alice leaves him.
(b) Miss Alice moves behind him, her arms around his neck, and then on his chest, urging him to come to her in his sacrifice.
(c) Miss Alice says a prayer for him.
(d) Miss Alice humiliates him even further.

8. Of what does Miss Alice remind him?
(a) He will never be a priest.
(b) He will marry her.
(c) He cannot run away.
(d) He is serving.

9. What does Julian remember about the Welsh man?
(a) The incredible tufts of black hair on his fingers.
(b) How handsome he was.
(c) The juice his farm produced.
(d) How good he was with horses.

10. In what do the two men then engage?
(a) A fight.
(b) A game of chess.
(c) A debate.
(d) A role-playing exercise.

11. What does the lawyer do when the other two men leave?
(a) He tells Miss Alice to follow the other two men.
(b) He kisses Miss Alice.
(c) He leaves.
(d) He violently grabs Miss Alice by the wrist and forces her to the floor.

12. What does the butler say about the wine cellar?
(a) It is filled with delicious, expensive wine.
(b) They are making some of the best wine in the region.
(c) It is beautiful and does not need Julian to care for it.
(d) Essentially they are making some very expensive vinegar.

13. What is the lawyer trying to do to Alice?
(a) Touch and caress her.
(b) Get her to sign a document.
(c) Seduce Julian.
(d) Kill her.

14. What does the lawyer hiss at her?
(a) He wants her.
(b) To leave him alone.
(c) To go after her precious Julian.
(d) To watch her step.

15. What do the folds of her negligee mimic?
(a) The clouds.
(b) The wind.
(c) A tarp.
(d) The unfurling of great wings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the scene set?

2. How does this scene open?

3. What do the two men wonder about Julian's mental state?

4. What does the butler say when at last he softens?

5. What does Julian fear?

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