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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Miss Alice recite?
(a) Her wedding vows in the form of a poem.
(b) A poem she had written.
(c) D.H. Lawrence's Love on the Farm.
(d) A scene from Romeo and Juliet.

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

4. For what do the lawyer and butler say that Julian has been looking?
(a) Friends.
(b) A ride back to the asylum.
(c) A home.
(d) Intimacy and love.

5. What does the butler say Miss Alice will do?
(a) Return soon.
(b) Be angry with the lawyer.
(c) Her job.
(d) She will run away with Julian.

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

7. How does Miss Alice's behavior change when the lawyer relentlessly pursues her and backs her against a wall?
(a) She is calm and seems a bit amused at his advances.
(b) She panics.
(c) She kisses him.
(d) She begins to scream.

8. What does the lawyer demand when he enters?
(a) To know where Miss Alice and Julian are.
(b) To take a nap.
(c) To have a bunch of flowers cut.
(d) To have dinner made for him.

9. What does the lawyer say is the true source of her private donation to the church?
(a) The selling of her mansion.
(b) Her father's inheritance.
(c) Her relationship with the Cardinal.
(d) Her sexual relationship with Julian.

10. In what do the two men relish?
(a) The idea of telling Miss Alice they are no longer interested in her plan.
(b) The idea of telling Miss Alice that Julian does not like him.
(c) The idea of telling Julian about their plans, to see his reaction.
(d) The idea of telling His Eminence that the precious Julian will soon be taken from him.

11. What do they discuss?
(a) His legal rights.
(b) Whether or not he should leave.
(c) How much fun they had riding horses today.
(d) His role as a lay man.

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

13. To what topic of discomfort does Julian move?
(a) The excess found in his new life at the estate.
(b) The chance he may leave her.
(c) His sore muscles from riding.
(d) His desire to marry Miss Alice.

14. What does Julian fear?
(a) The lawyer.
(b) Miss Alice.
(c) The chapel.
(d) The model.

15. How does Miss Alice continue to humiliate Julian?
(a) By telling him he is worthless.
(b) By making insulting comments about his looks.
(c) With a discussion about his role as her lay man.
(d) With a discussion of riding crops and whipping and asks if he has ever whipped anyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the lawyer hiss at her?

2. Where does Julian kneel?

3. What does Julian notice about the model of the mansion?

4. To whom is he talking?

5. What does Miss Alice think about the lawyer's hair on his back, the fat between his shoulder blades, even his genitalia?

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