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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most accurate advice Reverend Toti's father gives him about making the right decision to advise Agnes?
(a) "You should seek to please the Lord" (32).
(b) "You know your own heart." (32).
(c) "Don't wake me when you return" (32).
(d) "A man must be true to his word" (32).

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

3. What does Roslin bring to Margret in Chapter 3?
(a) Milk.
(b) Rye bread.
(c) Sweets.
(d) Danishes.

4. Why does Agnes wake up every morning in Chapter 3 with a "blow of grief to her heart" (58)?
(a) Fridrik has killed Natan.
(b) Natan is dead.
(c) Natan had abused her for many years her.
(d) Sigga has a better position than her.

5. How does Margret treat Agnes when she arrives in Chapter 2?
(a) She does not speak to Agnes.
(b) She leaves Agnes alone in a room.
(c) She cleans Agnes up and gives her water.
(d) She tells Agnes to sleep outside in the shed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Poet-Rosa write to Agnes a second time?

3. Where is Agnes originally held after the crimes?

4. In Chapter 5, how does Agnes describe her family as a child?

5. In Chapter 1, what two people have been murdered?

(see the answer key)

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