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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what do the villagers tease Esperanca?
(a) About her desire to learn to read and write.
(b) About a reward she is expecting from Palinor.
(c) About her fixing some clothing for the village idiot.
(d) About her son's tendency to wander for days without working.

2. 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 ask him to pretend to believe in God.
(d) To put him back in prison for a while.

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

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

5. What does Mother Superior ask of Jaime?
(a) About his wife's illness.
(b) That he come visit regularly.
(c) That he leave.
(d) About Amara's history.

6. What does Gillem offer to do?
(a) To kill the rapists.
(b) To carry Amara to the pen the nuns have for her.
(c) To take Amara to his home.
(d) To kill Amara.

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

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

9. What is Beneditx doing?
(a) Baptizing animals.
(b) Making holy water.
(c) Writing a treatise on angels.
(d) Praying 24 hours a day.

10. Who tells Beneditx he needs his assistance?
(a) Palinor.
(b) Raphael.
(c) Severo.
(d) Justine.

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

12. What makes Josefa happy about Amara's question?
(a) That Amara remembers the past.
(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 understands the idea of being free.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sends a priest for the child?

2. With what chores is Amara helping the nuns?

3. From where is Palinor?

4. Who takes in Josefa?

5. About what do Palinor, Severo, and Beneditx speak?

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