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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 - 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Agnes choose Reverend Toti to be her spiritual advisor?
(a) She had met him before, and he helped her cross a river.
(b) She liked that she was young.
(c) She heard he was a kind man.
(d) She knew that he would help her get her freedom back.

2. Where is the Jonsdottir family's farm?
(a) Kornsa.
(b) Katadalur.
(c) Illugstadir.
(d) Hvammur.

3. What is Natan holding in Agnes' dream in Chapter 3?
(a) A picture of Agnes' mother.
(b) A glass beaker filled with the scum off brewing herbs.
(c) A raven who flies away after Agnes arrives.
(d) A pair of scissors covered in blood.

4. Why does the poet, Rosa, dislike Agnes, as outlined in the Opening Poem in Chapter 5?
(a) She thinks Agnes is a bad mother.
(b) She dislikes Agnes, because she believes Agnes stole Natan from her and then murdered him.
(c) She says that Agnes stole from her and gossiped about it to others.
(d) She is jealous of Agnes' beauty.

5. What does Agnes contemplate the first day on the Jonsson farm in Chapter 3?
(a) She wants to steal Margret's brooch.
(b) She wants to become friends with the girls.
(c) She wonders if she'll be beaten.
(d) She wonders if she can escape or if she should.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Margret speak poorly about when her friend, Roslin, visits in Chapter 3?

2. Who is "they" in the following sentence: "They will blow us all out, one by one, until it is only their light by which they are themselves" (Prologue)?

3. How is Natan murdered, as described in Chapter 3?

4. How does Agnes feel about the way "truth" is understood by people, as described in Chapter 4?

5. What was Natan's true profession?

(see the answer key)

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