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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would she like to do for the church for twenty years?

2. What does Julian say when Miss Alice invites him to talk about himself?

3. How does Miss Alice challenge Julian?

4. What, at last, occurs?

5. What does Julian find ironic about staying in the section of the asylum that is for people who are only mildly troubled?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does their animosity become clearer?

2. About what is Julian astonished?

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

4. What makes Julian more and more frustrated wit h Miss Alice?

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

6. How does the ugly dialogue break?

7. What does the lawyer do when he enters?

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

9. What are the lawyer and Cardinal doing, as the play begins?

10. Describe the setting.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Most of the play takes place in a mansion.

Part 1) Who lives in this mansion? What is odd about this person?

Part 2) How does the decor reflect the mansion's owner?

Part 3) What is the significance of this mansion?

Essay Topic 2

The butler is nonplussed about most things.

Part 1) Prove this statement.

Part 2) What is his relationship with the other characters.

Part 3) Based on what you know of him, what might be his thoughts on this conspiracy?

Essay Topic 3

Julian hallucinates throughout the play.

Part 1) When are his hallucinations first mentioned? Describe this first hallucination.

Part 2) Why does he hallucinate during the play?

Part 3) Why does he hallucinate at the end of the play? How does this affect the audience?

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