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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the nuns believe about Amara and Fra Murta?
(a) He appreciates her childish wisdom.
(b) He has accepted that she knows nothing of God.
(c) Fra Murta has rejected Amara's answers.
(d) He wants to learn more from her.

2. What is Palinor doing when Fra Murta comes upon him?
(a) Resting in a hammock.
(b) Having sex with Dolca.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Eating dinner.

3. What does Amara see when she is high on the mountain?
(a) The pirates' cove.
(b) The abbey far below.
(c) A pack of wolves.
(d) Black specks on the ocean.

4. What does Palinor say about his fall from the ship?
(a) He should have let himself drown.
(b) He is bitter it happened.
(c) He should have swum the other way.
(d) He will be more careful the next time.

5. Why does Severo send Rafal away?
(a) To find out who coached Amara.
(b) He cooks badly.
(c) Severo wants to find Palinor's country.
(d) Severo wants to be alone with his guilt.

6. What does Beneditx tell Severo.
(a) That he has finished his task.
(b) That he is leaving for England.
(c) That Palinor now believes in God.
(d) That Palinor has convinced him.

7. How does Palinor feel about Aclar?
(a) He loves it.
(b) He hates it.
(c) He is tired of it.
(d) He is proud of it.

8. What haunts Beneditx?
(a) Palinor's fate and not being able to save him.
(b) Not believing in God.
(c) The torture of Palinor.
(d) The possibility of a fleet coming for Palinor.

9. What does Jamie say Amara can be for work?
(a) A housekeeper.
(b) A shepherd.
(c) An ice-keeper.
(d) A barmaid.

10. Who did the Christian encounter in Severo's dream?
(a) An angel with a flaming sword.
(b) A Saracen prince.
(c) Fra Murta.
(d) St. Augustine.

11. Why is Palinor bound with cordeles and garrotes?
(a) He refuses to confess.
(b) He has confessed his heresy.
(c) He has people coming to rescue him.
(d) He beat one of the guards.

12. What does Severo say when he hears about Galceran?
(a) He shouldn't curse in God's name.
(b) He shouldn't have prayed in front of her.
(c) He should be brought in for questioning.
(d) The experiment is void.

13. What does Beneditx feel when he tries to pray?
(a) God is busy.
(b) God will answer his prayers.
(c) God does not exist.
(d) God cannot hear him.

14. Why does Rafal tell Severo he can no longer serve him?
(a) He no longer believes in God.
(b) He is too old.
(c) He wants to get married.
(d) He is ill and dying.

15. Why does Fra Murta have a blacksmith with him when he visits Palinor?
(a) To chain his hands together.
(b) To make him ankle manacles.
(c) To cut off his manacles.
(d) To fit him with a neck iron.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Severo wish he could do?

2. Why do the nuns decide to investigate Amara?

3. Why is Palinor at the blacksmith's shop?

4. What do Severo and Fra Murta find out about Amara's knowledge of God?

5. From whom does Jamie find out about Amara's birth?

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