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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do two fishermen see as they are mending their nets?
(a) A beached whale.
(b) A huge shark about to engulf a boat.
(c) Someone swimming towards shore.
(d) A baby porpoise that seems lost.

3. How is the reversal of roles succeeding between Beneditx and Palinor?
(a) It is creating some doubt in Beneditx about God.
(b) It is too early to tell.
(c) It is creating some doubt in Palinor about no God.
(d) It is not making Palinor come any closer to acknowledging a God.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the shepherd tell the men at the snow house?
(a) Something is stealing the sheep.
(b) He needs to go to the village and wants someone to watch the sheep.
(c) He is getting married that day.
(d) An angel spoke to him.

11. What does Margarlido tell her husband?
(a) That Josefa is pregnant.
(b) That he needs to put Josefa out of the house.
(c) That Josefa has been insolent.
(d) That Josefa needs a husband.

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

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

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

15. Where does Severo send Palinor?
(a) To his home.
(b) Back to the fishing village.
(c) To Rome.
(d) The Saracen's House, a luxurious dwelling about two-hour's ride from Cuidad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who approaches Josefa and Amara?

2. What does Severo wonder as he lies on his pallet?

3. Why has Jaime come to Sant Clara?

4. How do the nuns know Amara misses Josefa?

5. About what do the villagers tease Esperanca?

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