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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. What does Miss Alice say about the chairs in the various rooms?
(a) They are by different makers.
(b) There is a chair in each room that is hers and hers alone.
(c) She purshased each one, herself.
(d) They are all antiques.

2. Julian says "It is God the mover, not God ______________."
(a) The shaker.
(b) The frozen.
(c) The maker.
(d) The puppet.

3. What does the butler share about himself with Julian?
(a) He does not enjoy being a butler.
(b) His name is also Julian.
(c) He is at Julian's service.
(d) His name, as well as his occupation, is Butler.

4. To what are the second man's words compared?
(a) A growl.
(b) Nails down a chalkboard.
(c) The exaggerated sneer of the animal in question.
(d) Brown, sticky, smelly mud.

5. Julian is intrigued by the butler's coincidence. How does the Butler feel?
(a) Nonplussed about almost everything.
(b) Unsure about Julian.
(c) Just as excited.
(d) Sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julian think about how men use God?

2. Who does Julian describe as a quiet, plain woman with soft features; one year or so on either side of forty, married to the owner of a dry goods store?

3. Where does this scene open?

4. What is Miss Alice's response when Julian tries to explain to her that he wondered if he imagined so many things or whether so many things he thought had come to play in his imagination?

5. Why does Julian ask whether or not someone will soon be available?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the lawyer enter the room?

2. What idea do the two men explore, regarding the Cardinal?

3. What does Julian do when the lawyer leaves?

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

5. How does their animosity become clearer?

6. What do the two men relish?

7. What had Julian assumed about their departure? What does he now realize?

8. What does Miss Alice reveal to Julian?

9. What does the lawyer say about Miss Alice and Julian?

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

(see the answer keys)

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