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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Agnes do before working at Kornsa?
(a) She was a cook.
(b) She was a devoted mother.
(c) She was a worker.
(d) She had a serving position.

2. According to the inventory, in Chapter 6, who did the sheep and hay belong to?
(a) Rosa.
(b) Agnes.
(c) Sigga.
(d) Margret.

3. Why will Fridrik be angry if Natan and Sigga have been together?
(a) He thinks Sigga is lying.
(b) He believes that it is unholy.
(c) He worries that Sigga will get pregnant.
(d) He thinks Natan is lying.

4. Who is obliged to help prepare Agnes Magnusdottir for her meeting with the Lord? (Chapter 1)
(a) Fridrik Sigurdsson.
(b) Assistant Reverend Thorvardur Jonsson.
(c) District Commissioner Bjorn Blondal.
(d) P. Bjarnasson.

5. Why does Karitas, Blondal's housekeeper, stop Reverend Toti before he leaves in Chapter 7?
(a) She says that Natan is a bad man and got what he deserved.
(b) She asks him to bring a message to Agnes, because they were friends before, and this was unfair.
(c) She wants him to know that Natan was a liar to Agnes, and he cured Blondal's wife, so Blondal is biased.
(d) She tells him that Agnes has always been a liar, and that she was jealous of Natan's relationship with Sigga.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Blondal write a letter to about the execution axe?

3. Why does Lauga not like Steina's relationship with Agnes?

4. Agnes meets Reverend Toti twice before seeking his counsel as her spiritual advisor for her crimes. What is the second instance?

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

(see the answer key)

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