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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. What is the event that Blondal speaks about to Lauga in Chapter 1?
(a) Agnes and Sigga living with them.
(b) The murderers.
(c) Fredrik killing sheep.
(d) Natan giving bad medicine to her mother.

2. Why does Lauga get angry at Steina when the District Commissioner arrives in Chapter 1?
(a) Steina is dirty.
(b) There is a storm, and Steina does not offer to dry his clothes.
(c) He is left alone in the parlor.
(d) Steina allows him inside without Lauga's permission.

3. Steina says in Chapter 3 that she met Agnes before. What did Agnes do for the girls?
(a) She plaited their hair and gave them eggs.
(b) She yelled at them for being nosey.
(c) She ignored them and went along her way.
(d) She tried to steal from them.

4. What does Agnes believe is punishment coming from God in Chapter 3?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Sleeplessness.
(c) Reverend Toti.
(d) A new relationship.

5. What is Natan holding in Agnes' dream in Chapter 3?
(a) A pair of scissors covered in blood.
(b) A glass beaker filled with the scum off brewing herbs.
(c) A raven who flies away after Agnes arrives.
(d) A picture of Agnes' mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Jonsdottir mother, Margret, distressed at the beginning of the novel?

2. The transition between the Chapter 2 narrative and the Chapter 3 narrative is important, because of what shift?

3. What is the nickname of Assistant Reverend Thorvardur Jonsson?

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

5. What does the Ministry Book say about Agnes in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Blondal approach the unfortunate situation of a murderer staying with the Jonsdottir family?

4. What happens in Agnes' dream? What's one possible translation? (113).

5. How does Margret express herself to Agnes the first morning?

6. Why would Reverend Toti's father not be supportive of him being Agnes' spiritual advisor?

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

8. How does Agnes feel about her conviction at the start of the narrative?

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

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

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