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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Miss Alice challenge Julian?
(a) To tell him what he thinks of her.
(b) To know more about his life.
(c) She asks him why he is a lay brother and not a priest.
(d) To an arm wrestling competition.

2. Not to be outdone, what does the second person sling back?
(a) The name the school children had for the lawyer, Hyena.
(b) Mud from the garden.
(c) Comments about the lawyer's family.
(d) Remarks about the lawyer's career.

3. Why does the lawyer initiate a discussion of his animosity for the Cardinal?
(a) He knows Julian is friends with the Cardinal.
(b) He is bored by Julian's responses.
(c) He is satisfied with Julian's information.
(d) He cannot contain his hatred.

4. Why is it appropriate?
(a) Because the birds understand each other so much better than would birds of any other kind.
(b) They are cardinals, just like the Cardinal.
(c) The lawyer and the Cardinal are friends that have grown up in the same household.
(d) The Cardinal is no more intelligent than a bird.

5. What does Miss Alice do when Julian tries to explain one more time that there is nothing much to tell, and it is simply a matter of his faith in God leaving him, and he committed himself to an asylum?
(a) She will not let go of it.
(b) She argues with him.
(c) She moves on to a new topic.
(d) She does not agree with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of conversation does the trio enter?

2. What happens to the conversation.

3. What does Julian find ironic about staying in the section of the asylum that is for people who are only mildly troubled?

4. What is in massive scale?

5. Because the mansion is so large, what must she do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the lawyer do when he enters?

2. How does this scene end?

3. How does their animosity become clearer?

4. What do the two men wonder about Julian's ability to take what they have to say?

5. Describe Julian's initial encounter with Miss Alice.

6. What does Miss Alice reveal to Julian?

7. Where are Miss Alice and Julian? About what do they discuss?

8. Who does the butler suggest the lawyer visit? Why?

9. What are the lawyer and Cardinal doing, as the play begins?

10. What does Julian realize about the model of the mansion?

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