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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vow does Josefa break?
(a) Not having a lover.
(b) Not eating meat.
(c) Obeying her father.
(d) Not telling Amara about God.

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

3. Why is Severo's dream important to him?
(a) He sees it as a metaphor for Amara.
(b) He sees it as an allegory for Beneditx.
(c) He sees it as a symbol of his rising status.
(d) He sees it as a comment on how he treated Palinor.

4. Who does Amara say created her?
(a) Her mother and father.
(b) Wolves.
(c) God.
(d) She doesn't know.

5. What do the people in Ciudad do when Palinor arrives?
(a) Spitting in his face.
(b) Lining the streets praying for him.
(c) Throwing rotten fruit at him.
(d) Fighting Fra Murta's men.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Amara say when asked about her twin?
(a) She was still with the wolves.
(b) She killed her.
(c) She never knew her.
(d) She died the first day.

11. Why does Jamie's mother suggest it was a whore who birthed Amara?
(a) She would be too ashamed to leave the baby at the church.
(b) She would get in trouble for unmarried sex.
(c) That all whores do that.
(d) She would have not husband to help her.

12. What does Severo do about Beneditx?
(a) Sends him back to Galilea.
(b) Has him try again with Palinor.
(c) Has him arrested for heresy.
(d) Sends him to Rome.

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

14. What does Amara ask Josefa that shows she's thinking about more than what's in front of her?
(a) She asks if they can find her sister.
(b) She asks what Josefa is thinking.
(c) She asks what's for dinner that night.
(d) She asks if Josefa is married.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Palinor wonder about passionately religious people?

2. What does Fra Murta demand of the nuns?

3. How does Palinor feel about Aclar?

4. What does Severo decide he used Amara for?

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

(see the answer keys)

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