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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who takes in Josefa?
(a) A tailor to be his wife.
(b) The nunnery at Sant Clara.
(c) The local school system who need a new teacher.
(d) Josefa's older sister.

2. What is one odd characteristic of Amara?
(a) She hates to be touched.
(b) She loves massages.
(c) She still howls at the moon.
(d) She says a blessing before eating.

3. What does Joffre reveal to Palinor?
(a) That Dolca was once raped and will not have sex since.
(b) That Dolca loves Palinor.
(c) That Dolca is actually his sweetheart, not his sister.
(d) That Joffre is attracted to Palinor.

4. What do Palinor's hands look like?
(a) Those of a prince.
(b) A swordfighter.
(c) A woman.
(d) A working man.

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

6. How does Amara walk now?
(a) She is not moving at all now because she can't walk upright or on all fours.
(b) Upright on straightened legs.
(c) On all fours, but with her legs straight out behind her.
(d) Upright but her legs are still badly bent.

7. 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.

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

9. What does Severo decide to do with the wolf child?
(a) He has not yet decided.
(b) Give her to Palinor to take with him because they have the means of helping her in his homeland.
(c) Mercifully kill her.
(d) Baptize her.

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

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

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

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

14. Who is there to greet Severo when he returns to the Cuidad?
(a) A bishop.
(b) A shepherd.
(c) Jaime.
(d) An inquisitor.

15. What does Palinor do?
(a) Has Joffre and Dolca in bed with him having sex.
(b) Leaves Joffre and Dolca alone in Palinor's bed.
(c) Hits Joffre.
(d) Apologizes to Joffre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the priest tell the Mother Superior?

2. How is the reader supposed to view the setting?

3. Who does Palinor say he is?

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

5. What does Beneditx say can be seen in the eyes of a newborn?

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