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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, who requests to hear about the progress Reverend Toti is making with Agnes?
(a) His Majesty.
(b) Reverend Toti decides himself.
(c) District Commissioner, Blondal.
(d) Reverend Toti's father.

2. What is one of the first things Agnes shares with the Reverend in Chapter 6?
(a) "I tried to call Pappi also, but he didn't like it (135).
(b) "Death happened, and in the usual way that it happens, and yet, not like anything else at all" (135).
(c) "One night the two of us were working in the badstofa with Inga" (135).
(d) "I was only five years old" (135).

3. What does Poet-Rosa write to Agnes a second time?
(a) A poem about how Agnes deserves her punishment, because she stole Natan from her.
(b) A poem about how Agnes is snobby.
(c) A poem saying that she misses their friendship.
(d) A poem saying that she hates Agnes for being adored by Natan.

4. Why is Roslin initially concerned about Margret in Chapter 3?
(a) Margret has a winter cough.
(b) Margret has a broken arm.
(c) Margret is fighting with her husband.
(d) Margret is angry at her daughters.

5. In the Prologue, Agnes reveals what to the reader?
(a) She reveals she is an orphan.
(b) She reveals that she is unmarried and unhappy.
(c) She reveals she has taken the lives of two men.
(d) She reveals that she is in love with a married man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Ministry Book say about Agnes in Chapter 4?

2. Who does Agnes meet on her way to Geitaskard, Natan's farm?

3. What does Agnes contemplate the first day on the Jonsson farm in Chapter 3?

4. What are the names of the two daughters in the Jonsdottir family?

5. What is the news the District Commissioner shares with the Jonsdottir girls in Chapter 1?

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