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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Alice do when Julian is still in his dreamlike state, musing on the greatness of sacrifice?
(a) Miss Alice says a prayer for him.
(b) Miss Alice leaves him.
(c) Miss Alice humiliates him even further.
(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.

2. What does Miss Alice do after the lawyer leaves her?
(a) She goes to the chapel to find the men.
(b) She cries.
(c) She assumes a more comfortable position on the floor, where she goes into a mantra.
(d) She calls for Julian.

3. What does Julian ask Miss Alice?
(a) How there could be flames in both the model of the chapel and the real chapel.
(b) Where the lawyer ran off to.
(c) If she would like to have some wine.
(d) If she is alright.

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

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

6. What does Julian beg of Miss Alice?
(a) To please not leave him.
(b) To marry him.
(c) To hold him.
(d) To please stay away from him.

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

8. What do the two men wonder about Julian's mental state?
(a) Will he attack one of them?
(b) Is he on medication?
(c) Will he end up back in the asylum?
(d) Will he fall on the side of his faith or the asylum?

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

10. What is Miss Alice's response when Julian pleads with her to explain what had just happened to him?
(a) She wearily responds that she does not know.
(b) She tells him that the lawyer had business to attend to.
(c) She no longer likes wine.
(d) The model and the real thing are the same.

11. How does the butler feel about the encounter upon which he has stumbled?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is embarrassed.
(c) He is nervous.
(d) He is amused.

12. What do the men wonder about the Cardinal, since he is, after all, a man of God, even though he seems to worship the symbol and not the substance?
(a) Can he take being told the full truth?
(b) Will he go through with the plan?
(c) Does he love Miss Alice?
(d) Will he take Julian's side?

13. What does Miss Alice tell him?
(a) "You are the sweetest man I know..."
(b) "Your sacrifice will be to the church, not to me..."
(c) "You will be hers; you will sacrifice yourself to her..."
(d) "I love you..."

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

15. What does the lawyer think about the relationship that has developed by the wealthy woman and the lay brother?
(a) He is intrigued.
(b) He is embarrassed for Miss Alice.
(c) He is personally and professionally outraged.
(d) He does not care.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what does Julian launch as he describes in intimate detail the experience of a Christian being fed to a lion?

2. What does he clearly wonder?

3. What is Miss Alice saying when the other men are gone?

4. How does the scene end?

5. What does the lawyer demand when he enters?

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