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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Josefa is ill?
(a) Amara reverts to her old ways.
(b) Amara cries in the corner.
(c) Amara hides.
(d) Amara asks about her.

2. What does Palinor invite Severo to do?
(a) To bathe in the fountain to wash off the dirt from the trip.
(b) To baptize Palinor in the fountain.
(c) To send Palinor home before he changes everything at Severo's home.
(d) To hire him to make more changes to his gardens.

3. Who captures and rapes Amara repeatedly?
(a) A wild cave man.
(b) No one.
(c) Some shepherds.
(d) Some hunters.

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

5. What happens to Amara?
(a) She begins speaking in sentences.
(b) She dies.
(c) She becomes very ill.
(d) She escapes again.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the reversal of roles succeeding between Beneditx and Palinor?

2. What does Palinor do?

3. What does the shepherd tell the men at the snow house?

4. What does Palinor wonder about his wife?

5. What does Joffre ask Palinor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Amara get away from the convent?

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

3. What does Palinor say about men who break the law?

4. What did Joffre ask Palinor and what was his reply?

5. Who rescues Palinor and how did they do it?

6. Where does Palinor travel to find help and what does the prefect observe about him?

7. How does the author ask the reader to think about the island? What would those thoughts reveal?

8. When a man comes up to Amara and Josefa as they cut nettles what does he tell them?

9. Where is Palinor staying in Cuidad and what does Beneditx do about Palinor?

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

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