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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Josefa realize about God?
(a) God does not exist.
(b) God does not know Amara.
(c) She does not miss thinking about God.
(d) God is in every little particle.

2. What does Palinor ask to do?
(a) Paint.
(b) Go home if he says he believes in God.
(c) Work in the garden.
(d) Redesign the house.

3. How does Amara scare away the group?
(a) She drops to all fours and howls.
(b) She screams curses at them.
(c) She pretends to be possessed.
(d) She cries.

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

5. What happens when Josefa is ill?
(a) Amara hides.
(b) Amara asks about her.
(c) Amara reverts to her old ways.
(d) Amara cries in the corner.

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

7. What happens to Amara?
(a) She escapes again.
(b) She becomes very ill.
(c) She begins speaking in sentences.
(d) She dies.

8. Why is Jaime worried?
(a) He lied to a priest.
(b) He is afraid the wild child will not be baptized.
(c) He is not baptized.
(d) His sheep are still missing.

9. What does the shepherd tell the men at the snow house?
(a) He needs to go to the village and wants someone to watch the sheep.
(b) Something is stealing the sheep.
(c) An angel spoke to him.
(d) He is getting married that day.

10. About what do Palinor, Severo, and Beneditx speak?
(a) God.
(b) Humility.
(c) The difference between God and Angels.
(d) Politics.

11. What does Beneditx think will convince Palinor of God?
(a) The five proofs of St. Thomas.
(b) The story of Beneditx's own conversion.
(c) The three points of St. Augustine.
(d) The story of the blind man.

12. Who diagnoses Amara?
(a) A famous Jewish physician.
(b) Josefa.
(c) A nun trained as a nurse.
(d) A country medicine man.

13. What do Severo and Beneditx decide to do about Palinor?
(a) To send him to his own country.
(b) To ask him what he believes.
(c) To put him back in prison for a while.
(d) To ask him to pretend to believe in God.

14. Who ends up caring for Amara?
(a) An elderly nun named Maria.
(b) The nuns rotate turns.
(c) Josefa.
(d) The mother superior.

15. What is the greatest task ever asked of the nuns at Sant Clara?
(a) Allowing a young boy to live at the nunnery.
(b) Letting Josefa take different vows from the rest of them.
(c) Obeying men who do not know about them as individuals.
(d) Caring for Amara.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joffre reveal to Palinor?

2. What does the priest tell the Mother Superior?

3. Who captures and rapes Amara repeatedly?

4. What makes Josefa happy about Amara's question?

5. What do two fishermen see as they are mending their nets?

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