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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Palinor confined by Fra Murta?
(a) In the city jail.
(b) In a cell with no windows.
(c) In a deep dungeon.
(d) In the church basement.

2. What has Palinor the most afraid?
(a) Not paying his debts.
(b) Not believing in God.
(c) Being decapitated.
(d) Dying in fire.

3. Why does Beneditx say his faith is gone?
(a) He thinks the church murders people.
(b) His reasoning upon which is was based was faulty.
(c) He thinks the world is too ugly to have been created by God.
(d) He realizes he never really believed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Why was Pare Aldonza relieved of her duties at the convent?
(a) She is ill.
(b) She has told Amara about God.
(c) She has had an affair.
(d) She has eaten meat.

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

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

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

15. How does Palinor feel about Aclar?
(a) He hates it.
(b) He is proud of it.
(c) He loves it.
(d) He is tired of 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 say settled the question about Palinor's knowledge of God?

3. What does Beneditx tell Palinor about his idea of nonbelievers?

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

5. What does Severo wish he could do?

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