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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Agnes first moves to Natan's farm, who becomes jealous of Natan and Agnes' connection?
(a) The housekeeper, Maria.
(b) Natan's elder sister, Helga.
(c) Natan's mother.
(d) The mistress, Natalia.

2. What position does Natan offer to Agnes when she first arrives at his farm?
(a) Housekeeper.
(b) Maid.
(c) Mistress.
(d) Wife.

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

4. What position has Sigga taken over when Agnes moves into Natan's farm?
(a) The housekeeper.
(b) Worker.
(c) Wife.
(d) Mistress.

5. Where do Agnes and Natan live together?
(a) Gafl.
(b) Kornsa.
(c) Flaga.
(d) Illugastadir.

6. How does Blondal prove to Reverend Toti in Chapter 7 that Agnes was the one who Agnes killed Natan?
(a) All women are evil and will do anything to get what they want.
(b) Agnes was angry that Natan refused to marry her and murdered him out of revenge.
(c) A witness saw Agnes with a bloody knife after the killings, and Fridrik was at home with his family.
(d) Natan is murdered by a stab to the belly, and Fridrik would not have done this, because he knows how to kill animals and would have slit his throat.

7. What happens to the baby after Inga gives birth?
(a) It is given milk and a warm bed.
(b) It is crying so hard that the family has to leave it outside.
(c) It is handed to Agnes to hold.
(d) It is given away, because they do not have enough money.

8. What happens to Agnes' foster-mother, Inga?
(a) She leaves the family when Agnes is young.
(b) She does not want Agnes and tries to give her away to another family.
(c) She hates Agnes, because Agnes is smarter than her.
(d) She dies during childbirth.

9. Who does Agnes meet on her way to Geitaskard, Natan's farm?
(a) Natan.
(b) Her brother, Joas.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Reverend Toti.

10. Where does Agnes go after not being able to live in Natan's cowshed, as described in Chapter 11?
(a) She sits outside Natan's door until he lets her in.
(b) She goes to Katadalur where Fridrik lives.
(c) She goes to Rosa's house and hopes she can make friends and stay there.
(d) She begins to travel to the capital to find her foster-father.

11. What kind of relationship develops between Agnes and Natan after she moves to his farm?
(a) They become intimate very soon and have a special bond that consists of deep conversations.
(b) Natan is the man of the house and tells Agnes what to do and how to do it.
(c) They are very good friends at first, but he loves his other servant more and gives her more attention.
(d) They do not talk when she first arrives, and Natan ignores her for the first few months.

12. What is the first question Agnes asked Sigga upon meeting her?
(a) "Where is my bed?"
(b) "Where is your husband?"
(c) "What should I do first?"
(d) "Where is Natan?"

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

14. Who does Fridrik court, as described in Chapter 11?
(a) Sigga.
(b) Kornitas.
(c) Rosa.
(d) Agnes.

15. Where does young Agnes go after losing her foster-family?
(a) A parish.
(b) Alone in the cold weather.
(c) Another loving family.
(d) Back to her real mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Agnes feel about living in Illugstadir after arriving?

2. Why did Agnes have to leave her foster-family, as described in Chapter 6?

3. Why is Natan's home built to face the land and not the sea?

4. What does, Bjorn, Agnes' foster-father, ask her to come outside and see, as described in Chapter 6?

5. How does Blondal know, in Chapter 7, that Sigga did not commit the murders?

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