2. What does Jaime question?
(a) The donkey's soundness.
(b) The sheep are sickly.
(c) The gold.
(d) Severo's order for him to leave and forget the girl.

3. What does Palinor wonder about his wife?
(a) If he has another woman.
(b) If he left her intentionally.
(c) If she is still alive.
(d) If she thinks he is dead or if she has taken up with his cousin.

4. Where does Amara go?
(a) To the sanctuary.
(b) To the top of the bell tower.
(c) To the cellar.
(d) Out into the woods.

5. What does Palinor ask Dolca to do?
(a) Undress.
(b) Write a letter to his wife.
(c) Read to him.
(d) Help him in the garden.

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

7. Who does Palinor say he is?
(a) A king in his own country.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A prince in his own country.
(d) A physician.

8. What is the time and setting supposed to resemble?
(a) 1100 in Tasmania.
(b) 1500 in Atlantis.
(c) 1450 in Catalina.
(d) 1450 in Mallorca.

9. What does Joffre ask Palinor?
(a) If life is worth living as an atheist.
(b) Why he doesn't just lie and say he is a Christian.
(c) Why he was interested in both Joffre and Dolca.
(d) If there is such a thing as sin.

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

11. What does Severo wonder as he lies on his pallet?
(a) Who God really is.
(b) Why Beneditx has not been successful with Palinor.
(c) Who he is.
(d) Why Palinor is there.

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

13. Why does Severo decide to visit Saracen?
(a) To get away from his duties for awhile.
(b) To check on his vineyards,
(c) To exercise his horse.
(d) To see how Palinor and Beneditx are doing.

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

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