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

2. Why do the men believe surely a hundred-million dollars a year should be enough for one man?
(a) He is not even a priest.
(b) He is not even that attractive.
(c) He is not very intelligent.
(d) He has no authority.

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

4. What does the lawyer say is the true source of her private donation to the church?
(a) Her relationship with the Cardinal.
(b) Her father's inheritance.
(c) Her sexual relationship with Julian.
(d) The selling of her mansion.

5. How does this scene open?
(a) It is set in the Cardinal's inner rooms.
(b) It is set in the mansion's garden at a party.
(c) It is set in the mansion's chapel during a service.
(d) It is set in the mansion's library and opens with no one on stage.

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

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

8. What happens as Miss Alice spreads her arms?
(a) He begins to grow stronger.
(b) He begins to weaken.
(c) He runs away.
(d) He begins to grow fearful.

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

10. 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) Where the other men are.
(c) Whether he will ever be a priest.
(d) Why he has not proposed yet.

11. To whom is he talking?
(a) Himself.
(b) Miss Alice.
(c) The lawyer.
(d) The Cardinal.

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

13. What does Julian do as he moves to her?
(a) He begins to sob.
(b) He takes a deep breath.
(c) He gives a sort of dying cry.
(d) He screams her name.

14. In what do the two men then engage?
(a) A game of chess.
(b) A fight.
(c) A debate.
(d) A role-playing exercise.

15. How does the scene end?
(a) With the two men wondering if Julian will survive.
(b) The two men search for Miss Alice.
(c) The men see the model of the mansion begin to move.
(d) The men are laughing about their plot to destroy Julian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the butler say when at last he softens?

2. In what does Miss Alice delight?

3. What does Julian do as she beckons him to come to her?

4. What does Miss Alice tell him?

5. How does Miss Alice continue to humiliate Julian?

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