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

2. What is Julian?
(a) A member of the church choir.
(b) A lay brother.
(c) An evangelist.
(d) A priest.

3. What does Julian admit to the butler when the lawyer leaves?
(a) He was orphaned as a child.
(b) He grew up in London.
(c) The blank six years of his life were spent in an insane asylum.
(d) He has a wife and child in the country.

4. Why does the lawyer comment to Miss Alice, "that will be our bird of prey?"
(a) To the birds flying around outside.
(b) To the butler eavesdropping.
(c) To a knock at the door.
(d) The Cardinal's innocence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is studying this creation from all angles?

2. What are both the butler and the lawyer, who have known each other for some time, quite eager to do?

3. What would Miss Alice like to do for the church?

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

5. Why would Julian ask a nurse or one of the attendants, "Could you tell me, did I preach last night?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the butler carry into the library?

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

3. What does the lawyer do when he enters?

4. How does the butler act, when he walks in on Miss Alice and the lawyer?

5. How does Miss Alice begin to ensnare Julian?

6. What does Miss Alice say about Julian's memory? To what does this lead?

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

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

9. How does Julian feel about the way the conversation with the butler is going? What does he want to know?

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

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