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

2. What about the butler infuriates the lawyer even further?
(a) His indifference.
(b) His disrespect.
(c) His rude behavior.
(d) His crude humor.

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

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

5. What does Miss Alice ask Julian to do?
(a) Move into the guest house.
(b) Leave.
(c) Move into the mansion with her.
(d) Go back to the monastery.

6. What does the butler suggest that it is probably time for the lawyer to do?
(a) Visit the Cardinal again.
(b) Seduce Julian.
(c) Leave.
(d) Find Miss Alice.

7. What do the two men believe would be a perfect twist?
(a) If the Cardinal were to marrry Julian and Miss Alice.
(b) If the lawyer were to marry Miss Alice.
(c) If the Cardinal were to marry Miss Alice.
(d) If the Cardinal has a relationship with Julian.

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

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

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

11. What is Julian doing for Miss Alice and the Church?
(a) Abandoning them.
(b) Embarrassing them.
(c) Serving them.
(d) Humiliating them.

12. What does the butler pretend?
(a) Dinner has already been served.
(b) He does not know where Miss Alice and Julian are.
(c) There is no place for him to take a nap.
(d) He does not hear the lawyer.

13. What are almost too much for him to avoid any longer?
(a) The various dishes of delicious food.
(b) The gluttony and temptation.
(c) Miss Alice's good looks.
(d) His feelings for Miss Alice.

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

15. 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 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 leaves him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the butler playing?

2. What has Julian become during his stay at the mansion?

3. What does Miss Alice tell him?

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

5. Why do the men believe surely a hundred-million dollars a year should be enough for one man?

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