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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is to stay with Palinor?
(a) Severo.
(b) No one.
(c) Espinalda.
(d) Beneditx.

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

4. What takes Beneditx and Severo by surprise?
(a) The wolf child speaks.
(b) The idea of Palinor being an angel.
(c) The mother nursing her newborn.
(d) Nothing.

5. What does Severo encounter at the entrance to his home?
(a) Amara who has run away from the nunnery.
(b) A new fountain.
(c) A group of shepherds.
(d) A group of soldiers.

6. What does Palinor say is proof of what is?
(a) There is no proof of what is.
(b) What people can see, taste, touch, and smell.
(c) The way the wind can be felt but not seen.
(d) The way flowers grow.

7. Who approaches Josefa and Amara?
(a) Another nun.
(b) A woman who says Amara is her child.
(c) Severo.
(d) A man with scars on his face.

8. What does Josefa ask to do with Amara?
(a) Teach her to read.
(b) Teach her to sing.
(c) Teach her to write.
(d) Take her to the seashore to collect mussels.

9. What does Beneditx ask Palinor to do?
(a) Imagine God in Palinor's mind.
(b) Lie to be able to leave the island.
(c) Confess his sins.
(d) Imagine an angel.

10. How do they get Amara cleaned up?
(a) They are not yet successful cleaning her.
(b) They lasso her and tie her tightly to a pole.
(c) They use meat to lure her into a tub of water.
(d) They drug her with poppy seed water.

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

12. What do two fishermen see as they are mending their nets?
(a) Someone swimming towards shore.
(b) A huge shark about to engulf a boat.
(c) A beached whale.
(d) A baby porpoise that seems lost.

13. Who is Margarlida ordering around?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her children.
(c) Her stepdaughter.
(d) Her servants.

14. What do Severo and Beneditx debate?
(a) How many angels can sit on the head of a pin.
(b) The issue of Palinor's lack of belief in God.
(c) Whether the wolf child deserves baptism.
(d) Why God created them.

15. What does Palinor invite Severo to do?
(a) To send Palinor home before he changes everything at Severo's home.
(b) To bathe in the fountain to wash off the dirt from the trip.
(c) To hire him to make more changes to his gardens.
(d) To baptize Palinor in the fountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Palinor wonder about his wife?

2. What stimulates Severo?

3. What does Severo wonder as he lies on his pallet?

4. What does Joffre ask Palinor?

5. What is one problem about Amara as far as the nuns are concerned?

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