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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. Who is to stay with Palinor?
(a) No one.
(b) Severo.
(c) Beneditx.
(d) Espinalda.

2. What does Palinor say is proof of what is?
(a) What people can see, taste, touch, and smell.
(b) The way flowers grow.
(c) There is no proof of what is.
(d) The way the wind can be felt but not seen.

3. Why is Beneditx angry?
(a) That Palinor laughs at him.
(b) That Severo is removing Beneditx from Palinor's presence.
(c) That his intellectual pride has been so great and yet his mind has been useless.
(d) That Palinor refuses to convert.

4. Who ends up caring for Amara?
(a) The mother superior.
(b) The nuns rotate turns.
(c) Josefa.
(d) An elderly nun named Maria.

5. What is Beneditx doing?
(a) Writing a treatise on angels.
(b) Making holy water.
(c) Baptizing animals.
(d) Praying 24 hours a day.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do Palinor, Severo, and Beneditx speak?

2. What is one of Beneditx's outstanding characteristics?

3. What does Amara ask Josefa?

4. Where does Severo send Palinor?

5. What is one odd characteristic of Amara?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the creature, the nervados, tracked doing when they see it and what happens in the first few minutes?

2. What does Joffre tell Palinor about Dolca?

3. What happened to Amara that put her into her present condition when brought back to the Abbey?

4. How does Severo respond to Jamie's story?

5. What do Severo and Beneditx debate about and what are each of their views?

6. How does Amara get away from the convent?

7. What does Josefa do to help Amara's recovery?

8. What does Palinor say about men who break the law?

9. Who rescues Palinor and how did they do it?

10. What does Palinor tell Beneditx about his view of the truth?

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