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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Julian want to do?
(a) Become a priest.
(b) Serve in some way and be forgotten.
(c) Run away.
(d) Marry Miss Alice.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the lawyer trying to do to Alice?
(a) Touch and caress her.
(b) Get her to sign a document.
(c) Kill her.
(d) Seduce Julian.

9. 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.

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. What does Miss Alice say she has done?
(a) Tried to obey, tried to understand, she has tried!
(b) Sold her soul to the devil.
(c) Nothing wrong.
(d) Given up on the lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the lawyer demand when he enters?

3. Why does the lawyer throw out that maybe she would rather be with her precious Julian?

4. What does Julian remember about the Welsh man?

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

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