View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Miss Alice ask that shocks Julian?
(a) Do you find me attractive?
(b) Have you slept with many women?
(c) Will you sleep with me?
(d) Why do you want to be a priest?

2. 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 argues with him.
(b) She does not agree with him.
(c) She will not let go of it.
(d) She moves on to a new topic.

3. What does Julian think about how men use God?
(a) He is outraged by it.
(b) He is not bothered by it.
(c) He tries not to think about it.
(d) He struggles with it.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the two discuss?

3. How are the periods of hallucination announced?

4. What does Julian admit to the butler when the lawyer leaves?

5. What is the most intriguing element?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the most intriguing element of the room?

2. Describe the upstairs sitting room of the castle.

3. What do the lawyer and butler do to Julian? What is Julian's response?

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

5. How is Miss Alice, when she enters the scene?

6. What does the butler tell the lawyer, after he softens?

7. What does the lawyer do to fend off his embarrassment?

8. What does the Cardinal tell Julian to accept? How does Julian respond?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 901 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample