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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 is described as the unofficial motto of the Sisterhood in Chapter 38?
(a) "Knowledge is what leads the way" (310).
(b) "Knowledge is dangerous in the wrong hands" (310).
(c) "Knowledge is beauty" (310).
(d) "Knowledge is a terrible power indeed" (310).

2. Who leaves behind a poem for Luna in the end of the novel?
(a) Adara.
(b) Glerk.
(c) Antain.
(d) Xan.

3. What does the narrator say the madwoman turned her bed into for a time in Chapter 26?
(a) A boat.
(b) A cat.
(c) A dog.
(d) A bird.

4. What sustenance keeps Sister Ignatia alive?
(a) Rage.
(b) Love.
(c) Desire.
(d) Sorrow.

5. What was Xan's father's profession, according to the narrator in Chapter 33?
(a) He was a carver.
(b) He was a baker.
(c) He was a trader.
(d) He was a farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Antain injure Xan in Chapter 33?

2. What creature appears to approach Luna and the others in the end of Chapter 44?

3. How is the madwoman running from the Head Sister in Chapter 41?

4. What does the narrator describe the madwoman doing with the feathers in Chapter 26?

5. What was Glerk's answer when Luna once asked him what happened to people when they die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the volcano's last eruption in Chapter 29?

2. What happens when Sister Ignatia attempts to coerce the madwoman to give over her boots in Chapter 40?

3. Why does Xan call out to Luna to go away in Chapter 41?

4. How does the madwoman spy on Sister Ignatia in Chapter 26?

5. What does the madwoman learn from Sister Ignatia's conversation in Chapter 26?

6. What does Luna discover through her scrying device in Chapter 36?

7. What is the symbolic significance of the sunlight that emerges in Chapter 38?

8. What does Luna learn from the animated papers in Chapter 27?

9. What happens when Antain encounters Xan in Chapter 33?

10. What information does Xan learn from Antain in Chapter 37?

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