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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. Who catches Agnes looking at the silver brooch in Chapter 3?
(a) Laugna.
(b) Margret.
(c) Jon.
(d) Steina.

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)?
(a) Her executioners.
(b) Men.
(c) Agnes' father.
(d) The villagers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Margret want to send her daughters away in Chapter 1?

2. How does Margret feel about the men sent to protect her family in Chapter 2?

3. What was Natan's true profession?

4. What is the issue with the axe to be used for the execution?

5. Why does Agnes choose Reverend Toti to be her spiritual advisor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Reverend Toti view Agnes upon their first meeting?

2. What are Agnes' emotions like when she first arrives at Kornsa?

3. What does the Ministerial Book reveal about Agnes' past that may give insight into her future?

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

5. How does Margret feel when she meets Agnes? Why?

6. 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?

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

8. How does the Supreme Court Trials describe the crime?

9. How does Agnes feel while working in the field at the Kornsa farm?

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

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