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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Palinor argue?
(a) That nothing is the only absolute.
(b) That absolutes only exist in science.
(c) That there are no absolutes.
(d) That science is the only absolute.

2. Why does Severo take Amara to the nunnery at Sant Clara?
(a) For the nuns to care for her and teach her.
(b) So the Mother Superior can give him advise.
(c) To ask if anyone might know who her parents are.
(d) So she can be allowed to die with dignity.

3. What are the men doing at the snow house?
(a) Making wine.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Making snow blocks.
(d) Melting the snow.

4. While the four men are eating dinner, what does Beneditx do?
(a) Reads from the gospel of Mark
(b) Tries another proof on Palinor.
(c) Gets a little drunk.
(d) Tells Severo that Palinor is a hopeless case.

5. What seems to be helping Amara?
(a) An addictive elixir.
(b) Fruits.
(c) Communion.
(d) Having a dog as a companion.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do Palinor, Severo, and Beneditx speak?

2. What does Josefa notice about Amara?

3. What does the priest tell the Mother Superior?

4. What happens when Josefa is ill?

5. What do Severo and Beneditx debate?

(see the answer key)

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