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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does he clearly wonder?
(a) Why he is there, what is his real purpose there, and why is he being tempted and tested.
(b) Whether he will ever be a priest.
(c) Where the other men are.
(d) Why he has not proposed yet.

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

7. What is Miss Alice's response when he asks her if there is anything to fear?
(a) Only here.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Always.
(d) Never.

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

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

10. What does Miss Alice think about the lawyer's hair on his back, the fat between his shoulder blades, even his genitalia?
(a) They are unusual for a man.
(b) She finds them to be odd.
(c) She loves every part of him.
(d) She finds them revolting.

11. In what does Miss Alice delight?
(a) Julian's embarrassment.
(b) Julian's nervousness.
(c) Julian's love.
(d) Julian's anger.

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

13. What do the two men explore about Julian?
(a) Whether he can take it as well.
(b) Whether he will stay.
(c) Whether he will go along with the plan.
(d) Whether he will be their sacrifice.

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

15. 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) Will he take Julian's side?
(b) Will he go through with the plan?
(c) Does he love Miss Alice?
(d) Can he take being told the full truth?

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the lawyer do when the other two men leave?

2. What does the lawyer say is the true source of her private donation to the church?

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

4. In what do the two men then engage?

5. What does the butler say about the wine cellar?

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