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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. How is the reader supposed to view the setting?
(a) From a position of an ant.
(b) From a position of being on another planet.
(c) From eye level.
(d) From a position of an angel hovering above the island.

2. What does Palinor ask to do?
(a) Paint.
(b) Redesign the house.
(c) Go home if he says he believes in God.
(d) Work in the garden.

3. What does Palinor argue?
(a) That absolutes only exist in science.
(b) That nothing is the only absolute.
(c) That there are no absolutes.
(d) That science is the only absolute.

4. What is Beneditx doing?
(a) Praying 24 hours a day.
(b) Writing a treatise on angels.
(c) Baptizing animals.
(d) Making holy water.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what chores is Amara helping the nuns?

2. Why has Jaime come to Sant Clara?

3. What does Beneditx think will convince Palinor of God?

4. What do two fishermen see as they are mending their nets?

5. How many words can Amara speak?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the creature, the nervados, tracked doing when they see it and what happens in the first few minutes?

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

3. How does Amara get away from the convent?

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

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

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

7. What do Severo and Beneditx debate about and what are each of their views?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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