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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the stepmother get angry in Chapter 15?
(a) Her stepson runs away.
(b) Lucius gets in the way.
(c) Her husband wants a divorce.
(d) Her feelings are not reciprocated.

2. Who stops the cook from hanging himself?
(a) His son.
(b) His wife.
(c) Charite.
(d) Lucius.

3. What does the baker's wife use magic to do?
(a) Make her husband starve to death.
(b) Make her hsuband rich.
(c) Make her husband love her again.
(d) Make her husband hang himself.

4. How does Charite know what really happened to her husband?
(a) She has a vision.
(b) Thrasyllus tells her.
(c) Her husband's ghost visits her.
(d) She was in the trees watching.

5. What does Thaysus think when he sees Lucius in Chapter 16?
(a) He gets angry.
(b) He begins to beat Lucius.
(c) He starts to cry.
(d) He thinks it is funny.

6. While Lucius is working in Chapter 11, what animal attacks him and his master?
(a) A lion.
(b) A bear.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A dog.

7. What are Tlepolemus and Thrasyllus hunting when Tlepolemus dies?
(a) Boar.
(b) Deer.
(c) Hogs.
(d) Buffalo.

8. What details about the poison are revealed at the trail in Chapter 15?
(a) The poison only works on the guilty.
(b) The poison has no real effect.
(c) The poison is not real.
(d) The poison only puts the victim in a coma.

9. What does Lucius' master do in Chapter 16?
(a) He is a priest.
(b) Works in the kitchen.
(c) He is a gardener.
(d) Is a wealthy landowner.

10. What college does Lucius belong to in Chapter 19?
(a) The College of Pastophori.
(b) The College of Lawyers.
(c) The College of Priests.
(d) The College of Pastoralia.

11. Who is the visitor to the cave in Chapter 10?
(a) Charite's husband.
(b) Charite's father.
(c) Charite's brother.
(d) Charite's cousin.

12. What does Lucius do to expose the bakers' wife's'lover?
(a) Brays until they find him.
(b) Crushes his fingers.
(c) Kicks him.
(d) Bites him.

13. In Chapter 15, who is said to have bought the poison?
(a) The stepmother's slave.
(b) The husband.
(c) The doctor.
(d) The stepson.

14. In Chapter 10, what does the visitor to the bandits' cave tell the bandits to do with Charite?
(a) Give her to him.
(b) Keep her as a maid.
(c) Sell her to a brothel.
(d) Kill her.

15. Who accuses Lucius of killing the boy who was killed by the bear in Chapter 11?
(a) The boy's sister.
(b) The boy's uncle.
(c) The boy's father.
(d) The boy's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to stop Lucius when he runs away?

2. What does Charite do in front of her husband's tomb?

3. How does Lucius feel about his new religion at the end of the novel?

4. How many initiations in all must Lucius undergo in Chapter 19?

5. In Chapter 10, why are the bandits unhappy with Lucius?

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