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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. About what do the lawyer and butler relentlessly question Julian?
(a) His background.
(b) His relationship with the Cardinal.
(c) His interest in birds.
(d) His training in the priesthood.

2. What does Julian find ironic about staying in the section of the asylum that is for people who are only mildly troubled?
(a) Most of the people there have severe mental illness.
(b) He never considered the fleeing of faith a mild matter.
(c) All mental illness is serious.
(d) Those staying in this section had no mental illness.

3. Who is cooing and talking to the birds, trying to engage them to interact with him?
(a) Julian.
(b) Miss Alice.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) The Cardinal.

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

5. How are the periods of hallucination announced?
(a) Flashes of light.
(b) Darkness.
(c) The sound of choirs singing.
(d) By a ringing in the ears.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first man not leave without?

2. What question does Miss Alice ask that shocks Julian?

3. Why does Miss Alice play this game?

4. Who does Julian say he found crying, "Help me, help me... help me, oh God, God, help me... oh help, help?"

5. What does the first man do in an attempt to fend off his feelings about being caught?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the lawyer do when he enters?

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

4. What do the two men relish?

5. What does the butler tell Julian about himself? What is Julian's response?

6. How does the scene end?

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

8. What do Julian and the butler say about this creation?

9. How does the lawyer respond to Miss Alice's insults?

10. What does the butler carry into the library?

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