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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the nuns know Amara misses Josefa?
(a) Amara grabs the nun's habit and shakes it.
(b) Amara smiles when Josefa's name is mentioned.
(c) Amara makes a sound like Josefa's name.
(d) They do not know she misses Josefa.

2. Where do they decide to send Palinor?
(a) To Constantinople.
(b) To prison again.
(c) To Rome.
(d) To Severo.

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

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

5. What does Amara ask Josefa?
(a) Why Josefa never prays like the other nuns.
(b) If there is a God.
(c) To go back to the sea to collect mussels.
(d) If she can be free.

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

7. What makes Josefa happy about Amara's question?
(a) That Amara understands the idea of being free.
(b) That Amara can observe the difference between what Josefa does and what the other nuns do.
(c) That Amara is curious about God.
(d) That Amara remembers the past.

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

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

10. What does Palinor have at home?
(a) Several children though his wife is dead.
(b) A wife and son.
(c) A grandson.
(d) A palace.

11. What is one problem about Amara as far as the nuns are concerned?
(a) She is turns out to be male.
(b) She is very strong and can hurt people.
(c) She is female.
(d) She only eats raw meat and the nuns do not eat meat.

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

13. With what chores is Amara helping the nuns?
(a) She can sweep the floor; that's about it.
(b) She can knead bread, feed the farm animals, and card wool, sew and cook.
(c) She kneads bread, feeds the farm animals, and cards wool.
(d) Nothing yet.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Severo decide to do with the wolf child?

2. What does Jaime question?

3. Who captures and rapes Amara repeatedly?

4. Where are they going to send Palinor?

5. What do the nuns decide the best approach is to helping Amara?

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