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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are they discussing as Julian enters the library?
(a) Moving him in with Miss Alice.
(b) Making him the Parish Priest.
(c) Having him do more work in the wine cellar.
(d) Moving him into quarters over the chapel.

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

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

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

5. What does the lawyer demand that the butler do?
(a) Make him dinner.
(b) Keep an eye on Miss Alice and Julian at all times.
(c) Put flowers in a vase for him.
(d) Make up a bed for him.

6. 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 take Julian's side?
(c) Does he love Miss Alice?
(d) Will he go through with the plan?

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

8. 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 has run away.
(c) Julian does not want to see them.
(d) Julian will no longer be seeing them this evening.

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

10. What does Julian do as she beckons him to come to her?
(a) He runs away from her.
(b) He begins to cry.
(c) He crawls slowly to her.
(d) He continues to plead for sacrifice.

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

12. What do they wonder if they should tell the Cardinal?
(a) That Julian is out of the conspiracy.
(b) That the Cardinal will not get any of the money.
(c) About the model of the mansion.
(d) About Miss Alice's relationship with Julian.

13. What must the lawyer do with their plans for Julian?
(a) Forget about them.
(b) Inform Miss Alice of them.
(c) Warn Julian of them.
(d) Inform the Cardinal of them.

14. What is Miss Alice saying when the other men are gone?
(a) Nothing. She cries.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She says Julian's name and then is silent.
(d) A monologue.

15. What has Julian become during his stay at the mansion?
(a) A nuisance.
(b) A priest.
(c) A man.
(d) A tremendous help.

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 the butler say when at last he softens?

3. What does the lawyer do to the butler?

4. Why do the butler and Julian run to the chapel?

5. How does Miss Alice's behavior change when the lawyer relentlessly pursues her and backs her against a wall?

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