View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the greatest task ever asked of the nuns at Sant Clara?
(a) Allowing a young boy to live at the nunnery.
(b) Letting Josefa take different vows from the rest of them.
(c) Obeying men who do not know about them as individuals.
(d) Caring for Amara.

2. What does Amara ask Josefa?
(a) Why Josefa never prays like the other nuns.
(b) To go back to the sea to collect mussels.
(c) If there is a God.
(d) If she can be free.

3. Where does Severo send Palinor?
(a) To his home.
(b) The Saracen's House, a luxurious dwelling about two-hour's ride from Cuidad.
(c) Back to the fishing village.
(d) To Rome.

4. What does Palinor say truth is like?
(a) A mountain.
(b) Many rivers.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The sky.

5. What are the men doing at the snow house?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Melting the snow.
(c) Making wine.
(d) Making snow blocks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Josefa teach Amara to do?

2. Why does Severo decide to visit Saracen?

3. Who is Margarlida ordering around?

4. Who diagnoses Amara?

5. What do Palinor's hands look like?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what is Beneditx noted?

2. What does Severo think about as he falls asleep the first night of visiting Palinor and Beneditx?

3. Why is Beneditx angry and what does he remember about his mother's anger?

4. What does Josefa do to help Amara's recovery?

5. What happens when Dolca comes into Palinor's room on an errand?

6. What does Palinor tell Beneditx about his view of the truth?

7. Who is waiting for Severo when he returns home?

8. What do the nuns decide to do with Amara first and how do they do it?

9. What does Palinor tell Beneditx about the need to explain everything?

10. How is Amara doing now and what does she gain by it?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 864 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample