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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) He wants to learn more from her.
(d) Fra Murta has rejected Amara's answers.

2. Why are the nuns distressed?
(a) For sheltering a murderess.
(b) Severo is shutting down the convent.
(c) Amara has run away.
(d) Josefa is returning home.

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

4. What do Severo and Fra Murta find out about Amara's knowledge of God?
(a) It is simple faith, like a child.
(b) It is wise and profound.
(c) It is deeply buried.
(d) It does not exist.

5. What does Palinor tell Fra Murta about his captains?
(a) They will demand payment.
(b) They will have revenge.
(c) They will come for his body.
(d) They will torture Fra Murta.

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

7. What does Beneditx tell Palinor when he says it's impossible to know if God exists?
(a) That could cost him his life.
(b) That Palinor needs to get out of his head.
(c) That God just won't give him faith.
(d) That nothing is impossible.

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

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

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

11. What does Amara say about the chapel?
(a) It is a bad place.
(b) It is peaceful.
(c) It is too stuffy.
(d) It is beautiful.

12. What does Palinor wonder about as he waits for the morning?
(a) Why Severo turned him over to Fra Murta.
(b) Whether all the people on the island will be killed.
(c) Why his ships have not returned for him.
(d) How Severo will kill him before the fire.

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

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

15. How does Fra Murta seem to feel about being an inquisitor?
(a) He is indifferent to it.
(b) He believes it is not necessary.
(c) He despises it.
(d) He relishes it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Severo tell Fra Murta is the reason he didn't follow procedure with Palinor?

2. What does Severo feel about the shedding of blood?

3. Where do many mothers leave their babies?

4. What does Severo decide he used Amara for?

5. What does Severo say settled the question about Palinor's knowledge of God?

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