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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 are the names of the two daughters in the Jonsdottir family?
(a) Margret and Lauga.
(b) Agnes and Sigga.
(c) Steina and Lauga.
(d) Steina and Agnes.

2. Whose belongings are being auctioned off in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Agnes Magnusdottir.
(b) Bjorn Blondal.
(c) Natan Ketilsson.
(d) Fridrik Sigurdsson.

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

4. Where is Agnes originally held after the crimes?
(a) Galfa.
(b) Kornsa.
(c) Copenhagen.
(d) Stora-Borg.

5. What is the last possession Agnes owns?
(a) A necklace.
(b) A picture of her little brother.
(c) A coat.
(d) Her dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the murdered victims found?

2. Where is the Jonsdottir family's farm?

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

4. Why will the murderers be executed in Iceland?

5. Where was Agnes born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Agnes nothing like Margret imagined?

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

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

6. Why might Agnes say, "What a person does, and to know a person is, very different thing" (103)?

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

8. How does Blondal feel about asking the Assistant Reverend Thorvardur Jonsson to meet with Agnes?

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

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

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