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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 wants to learn more from her.
(b) He appreciates her childish wisdom.
(c) Fra Murta has rejected Amara's answers.
(d) He has accepted that she knows nothing of God.

2. How does Galceran show he may have exposed Amara to God?
(a) Cursing at her.
(b) Telling her the Lord's Prayer.
(c) Praying within range of her hearing.
(d) Taking her to a chapel.

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

4. From where have Joffre and Dolca walked?
(a) From Saracen's House.
(b) From the convent.
(c) From Ciudad.
(d) From the mountains.

5. What does Palinor say his country will do if they harm him?
(a) Ask for a payment in gold.
(b) Retrieve his body.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Exact a terrible revenge.

6. How does Severo feel about Fra Murta?
(a) He can't stand his company.
(b) He has a mild distaste towards him.
(c) He admires him.
(d) He believes he is a saint.

7. Why does Severo examine the map?
(a) To send Beneditx far away.
(b) To decide where he is going to go.
(c) To try and find Aclar.
(d) To see where Amara came from.

8. What was unusual about Amara's birth?
(a) She wasn't born on the island.
(b) She was born to a whore.
(c) Her mother died when she was born.
(d) She was a twin.

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

10. 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.

11. What do Fra Murta's minions force Palinor to do?
(a) Take communion.
(b) Straddle a large log with his hands bound.
(c) Go to his knees.
(d) Wear a black hood.

12. What does Fra Murta believe about the eventual outcome of the "Amara" experiment?
(a) It will confirm God's existence.
(b) It will not support the church.
(c) It will condemn heresy.
(d) It will prove useless.

13. What religion is the land of Aclar?
(a) People choose their own religion.
(b) It is atheistic.
(c) It is Catholic.
(d) There are no churches.

14. What does Fra Murta think of Palinor's descriptions of Aclar?
(a) It sounds pretty.
(b) They are horrible.
(c) He is indiffernt.
(d) It sounds dull.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did the Christian encounter in Severo's dream?

3. What do the servants where Palinor is staying demand of Fra Murta?

4. What does Palinor wonder about as he waits for the morning?

5. To what fire is Fra Murta referring?

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