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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fra Murta ask Palinor three days after he is confined?
(a) If he is a Jew.
(b) If he is a king.
(c) If he believes in God.
(d) If he is a Christian.

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

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

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

5. Where do many mothers leave their babies?
(a) At the church.
(b) At the hospital.
(c) At the doctors.
(d) At the tavern.

6. 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.

7. Why is Severo allowed into Palinor's cell?
(a) He said he was sent by God.
(b) He showed his ordination ring.
(c) He was sent by Fra Murta.
(d) He knows the jailer.

8. What did Dolca spend the money from Severo on?
(a) A good last meal for Palinor.
(b) A small house on the coast.
(c) A fine robe for Palinor to wear while he died.
(d) A substance that emits a lethal fume when burned.

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

10. Why does Fra Murta believe Amara answered his questions as she did?
(a) She was too smart for him.
(b) She didn't understand the questions.
(c) She had too much depth to be understood.
(d) She was playing dumb.

11. What does Severo wish he could do?
(a) Go back in time and change his first decision.
(b) Stop believing in God.
(c) Save Palinor.
(d) Kill Fra Murta.

12. What does Palinor wonder about passionately religious people?
(a) Why they never came to his country.
(b) Why he had to land among them.
(c) Why they are murderous and cruel.
(d) Why they believe in God.

13. What do the servants where Palinor is staying demand of Fra Murta?
(a) That they leave Palinor alone.
(b) That they bring Severo there.
(c) That they not beat Palinor.
(d) That they arrest all of them.

14. Where does Palinor go with Fra Murta?
(a) To Ciudad.
(b) To Rome.
(c) To the mountains.
(d) To Severo's church.

15. Why does Severo give Palinor to Fra Murta?
(a) To show Beneditx what could happen to him.
(b) He's angry about Beneditx.
(c) To keep Fra Murta from killing a woman.
(d) To advance his standing in the church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Beneditx say his faith is gone?

2. What does Severo hope about Fra Murta?

3. What does Fra Murta think of Palinor's descriptions of Aclar?

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

5. What does Severo decide he used Amara for?

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