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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 Julian respond to Miss Alice's game?
(a) With embarrassment.
(b) With astonishment.
(c) With anger.
(d) With desire.

2. How does Julian respond?
(a) That he is friends with the Cardinal.
(b) He tells them all he knows about birds.
(c) By saying that the past six years of his life were blank but not black.
(d) With the details of training to become a priest.

3. What does the butler do?
(a) Enters and agrees that the model is an extraordinary piece of work.
(b) Writes down the measurements.
(c) Teases the Cardinal.
(d) Dusts the model.

4. Why is Julian confused about Miss Alice's deafness, withered face, and gray and white matted hair?
(a) He is surprised she has no nurse to assist her.
(b) He was told by the Cardinal that the woman was neither ill nor old.
(c) He did not realize how sorry he would feel for her.
(d) He wonders why she is not in a facility for the elderly.

5. What is in massive scale?
(a) The crosses.
(b) The room.
(c) The chairs.
(d) The flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes clearer as the first person becomes more verbal and forthright about the second?

2. Why does Miss Alice begin a flirtatious conversation asking if he had been intimidated by herself or the lawyer, and if he had liked the butler?

3. With what is Julian not comfortable?

4. How does Julian describe his loss of faith?

5. What does Julian believe must happen in order to make it easier for men to live?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Julian do when the lawyer leaves?

3. What does Miss Alice do when Julian becomes embarrassed?

4. How does the lawyer react when he sees the Cardinal? What does the Cardinal explain to the lawyer?

5. How does the scene end?

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

7. How does Julian feel about Miss Alice's topic of discussion? How does he respond?

8. What does the lawyer say how the Cardinal's caged birds?

9. What does the lawyer do to Miss Alice, when the other two men leave?

10. How is Julian's behavior similar to when he was at the asylum?

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