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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 Natan out doing when Agnes first arrives at his home to live?
(a) Conducting business.
(b) Visiting a friend.
(c) Fox-hunting.
(d) Fishing.

2. What does Fridrik's mother tell him when she learns of his fight with Natan?
(a) She tells Fridrik to break-up with Sigga to stop all of this.
(b) She says that Fridrik will not have Sigga as long as Natan is alive.
(c) She tells Fridrik to consider marrying Agnes now that she has no home.
(d) She says that Fridrik needs to stop fighting with Natan and causing problems.

3. Why does Rosa give her daughter to another person?
(a) Rosa wants Fridrik and his wife to be happy.
(b) Rosa thinks Sigga will be a better mother.
(c) Rosa cannot raise her daughter.
(d) Natan is the father of Thoranna and she deserves time with him.

4. What does Agnes catch Fridrik doing outside the house that scared her, as described in Chapter 11?
(a) Snooping around the barn.
(b) Kicking a sheep.
(c) Digging in the ground.
(d) Yelling at Sigga.

5. What does Bjorn, Agnes' childhood foster-father, not like?
(a) Agnes calling him, "Pabbi."
(b) Agnes' poor reading and writing.
(c) The close relationship Agnes had with his wife, Inga.
(d) The way Agnes wore her hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Agnes think that Natan loved Rosa, as described in Chapter 7?

2. Who does Rosa leave her daughter with, as described in Chapter 10?

3. Why does Agnes decide to go where she does after being kicked out of Natan's house?

4. Who does Agnes meet on her way to Geitaskard, Natan's farm?

5. What does Sigga say when Agnes asks if Natan is at church, because it is Sunday?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Reverend return to Agnes, even though he is sick?

2. What was Agnes' first impression of Sigga when she arrives at Illugastadir?

3. In what ways does Agnes help Roslin get through her birth?

4. How does Agnes describe her feelings and relationship with Natan after having a dream?

5. What is at the crux of the disagreement between Blondal and Reverend Toti about Agnes?

6. Why does Agnes not believe that Steina and her have anything real in common?

7. What exactly happens in Agnes' dream of Reverend Toti, which is the true first time she met him?

8. After realizing that her sister was dead, what was Agnes' reaction?

9. Ravens are a common theme throughout the story. What do the ravens represent in the following scenario? Agnes turned away after finding Fridrik kicking Natan's dead sheep outside. She felt this was only the beginning of a more violent incident to come. "I turned around ... and saw a raven descent upon the sheep. It gave a mournful caw and then plunged its beak into the innards" (267). The ravens brutally attacked an already dead animal right after Agnes sees Fridrik committed the same act.

10. How does Agnes approach Natan's work as a medicinal man? Why is her response ironic?

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