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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Agnes respond to Rosa's poem in Chapter 5?
(a) She explains that she does not know how this all happened, and that she is sad too.
(b) She calls Rosa despicable names.
(c) She tells Rosa that she has no idea what she is talking about and should leave her alone.
(d) She asks Rosa to never contact her again.

2. What is the real reason Roslin visits her friend, Margret in Chapter 3?
(a) Roslin wants to help the girls with their work.
(b) Roslin wants to gossip about Agnes.
(c) Roslin wants advice about her own marriage.
(d) Roslin wishes to give Margret a gift

3. Who welcomes Reverend Toti to the church in Chapter 4?
(a) Digga.
(b) Reverend Thomason.
(c) Jon Jonssori.
(d) Haukur Jonsson.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is obliged to help prepare Agnes Magnusdottir for her meeting with the Lord? (Chapter 1)

4. Whose belongings are being auctioned off in the beginning of Chapter 1?

5. How does Agnes describe how other people think about her crime?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Margret think about the morning after Agnes' arrival?

2. What does Agnes mean when she says that people did not see her; they see two dead men in a burning farm with a knife?

3. What does Poet-Rosa's poem accuse Agnes of doing?

4. Where do we clearly see the difference of opinion toward Agnes between the Jonsdottir girls?

5. How does Margret respond to Roslin's opinions? Why?

6. How does Agnes argue with Reverend Toti about the meaning of 'truth'" (126)?

7. How does Agnes respond to Reverend Toti's initial comments about prayer and absolution?

8. Why is Agnes nothing like Margret imagined?

9. How does Margret view Agnes while she is cleaning her?

10. Analyze Agnes' quote, "I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It's written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink" (132).

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