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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Amara?
(a) She begins speaking in sentences.
(b) She escapes again.
(c) She dies.
(d) She becomes very ill.

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

5. How is the reader supposed to view the setting?
(a) From a position of being on another planet.
(b) From a position of an angel hovering above the island.
(c) From a position of an ant.
(d) From eye level.

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

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

8. What stimulates Severo?
(a) The intellectual discussions.
(b) The idea of no angels.
(c) The wolf child's speech.
(d) The idea of no god.

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

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

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

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

13. What does Josefa notice about Amara?
(a) She is different from Josefa's younger brothers.
(b) She is very talkative to all the nuns.
(c) She is eager to please now.
(d) She is growing into her head.

14. Who accidentally lets Amara out among some dogs?
(a) Esteban, the dog caretaker.
(b) Palinor.
(c) Josefa.
(d) The Mother Superior.

15. What does Palinor ask?
(a) To convert to Christianity.
(b) To settle in the Cuidad.
(c) To swim away to another island.
(d) To be allowed to leave rather than be burned as an atheist.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many parties does the reader see traveling on the mountain?

2. How is the reversal of roles succeeding between Beneditx and Palinor?

3. What does Severo give Jaime?

4. What does Beneditx think will convince Palinor of God?

5. Why is Dolca afraid?

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