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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 Bernotus Rhymes?
(a) A book Bjartur gives Asta to help her learn to read.
(b) The Bible in Icelandic.
(c) The stories that Asta's grandmother tells her and her brothers.
(d) The stories that Rosa wrote to Asta before she died.

2. Who is Thorthur of Nithurkot?
(a) The name of the county that they live.
(b) Bjartur's landlord.
(c) Rosa's father.
(d) Rosa's best friend.

3. What is Part II of the novel called?
(a) Free of Sheep.
(b) Free of Debt.
(c) No Woman No Cry.
(d) Free of Pain.

4. What happens to Gunnvor as she grows older as told in Section 1?
(a) She divorces her husband and marries a younger man.
(b) She thirsts for human blood.
(c) She looks younger and younger.
(d) She continues to have child after child.

5. Who is Gudny?
(a) Bjartur's new wife.
(b) The helper that the Madam of Myri sends to Summerhouse to help with the baby.
(c) Bjartur's sister-in-law who comes to help with the baby.
(d) The name he gives his daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kolumkilli do when the Norsemen settled in Iceland as told in Section 1?

2. What does Nonni dream about in Section 2?

3. What do the crofters talk about before the wedding in Section 1?

4. What group is Ingolfur Arnarson Jonsson chairman of, in Section 1?

5. Who is Audur?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Madam of Myri compare the townsmen from the country men in Section 1?

2. How does Bjartur express his connection to his dog in Section 1?

3. Who is Gunvor?

4. In Section 1, how are the conversations between the men and women different on Bjartur and Rosa's wedding day?

5. How is Asta Sollilja described in Section 2?

6. How does Rosa describe Summerhouse when she first sees it in Section 1?

7. How does the relationship between Asta Sollilja and Bjartur change over the course of Section 2?

8. What does Bjartur tell Asta Sollilja about Rosa in Section 2, and is he being honest?

9. What are examples of Nonni's imagination in Section 2?

10. What do Rosa and Bjartur argue about during their first night back at Summerhouse?

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