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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 does Joffre reveal to Palinor?
(a) That Dolca was once raped and will not have sex since.
(b) That Dolca is actually his sweetheart, not his sister.
(c) That Joffre is attracted to Palinor.
(d) That Dolca loves Palinor.

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

3. Why is Beneditx angry?
(a) That Palinor laughs at him.
(b) That Severo is removing Beneditx from Palinor's presence.
(c) That his intellectual pride has been so great and yet his mind has been useless.
(d) That Palinor refuses to convert.

4. What does Palinor ask Dolca to do?
(a) Help him in the garden.
(b) Read to him.
(c) Write a letter to his wife.
(d) Undress.

5. What does Beneditx think will convince Palinor of God?
(a) The three points of St. Augustine.
(b) The story of Beneditx's own conversion.
(c) The five proofs of St. Thomas.
(d) The story of the blind man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one odd characteristic of Amara?

2. Who diagnoses Amara?

3. What does Palinor need?

4. How does Amara scare away the group?

5. Where do they decide to send Palinor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Amara that put her into her present condition when brought back to the Abbey?

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

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

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

5. What does Joffre tell Palinor about Dolca?

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

7. What does Severo suggest to Beneditx?

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

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

10. How does Sor Blancha realize Amara misses Josefa and what happens when she does?

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