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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Severo tell Fra Murta is the reason he didn't follow procedure with Palinor?
(a) He wants Beneditx to have practice on Palinor.
(b) He didn't explain his actions.
(c) He likes Palinor too much.
(d) He's performing an experiment.

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

3. Why is Palinor at the blacksmith's shop?
(a) To have a sword made.
(b) Discussing a machine to pump water.
(c) To get his manacles taken off.
(d) To get his horse shod.

4. Why does Amara keep climbing?
(a) She is not tired.
(b) She lost her spoor.
(c) She lost her way.
(d) Sh is meeting someone.

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

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

7. 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.

8. What does Esperanca say why Palinor cannot be a heretic?
(a) He has promised her riches.
(b) He is a king.
(c) He is too kind and gentle.
(d) He is from another country.

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

10. From whom does Jamie find out about Amara's birth?
(a) Pirates.
(b) Jamie's brother.
(c) A brothel owner.
(d) A shepherd.

11. What does Jamie find out about abandoned babies?
(a) It is usually the father that makes the mother do it.
(b) It never happens.
(c) It usually occurs when the mother dies.
(d) It is a common practice.

12. What does Severo decide he used Amara for?
(a) To condemn Palinor.
(b) To entrap God.
(c) To keep the nuns busy.
(d) To farther his own status.

13. What does Severo feel about the shedding of blood?
(a) It is a grace for the church.
(b) He is indifferent to it.
(c) It is a necessary evil.
(d) It is never a good thing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Fra Murta believe about Palinor's descriptions of Aclar?

3. How does Galceran show he may have exposed Amara to God?

4. To what fire is Fra Murta referring?

5. Why does Jamie's mother suggest it was a whore who birthed Amara?

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