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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the one being tortured which causes the person from #16 to react in the way that he/she does?
(a) Grandfather.
(b) Brother.
(c) Father.
(d) Mother.

2. What is the magistrate reaching, which makes the reader think that he might be older than others in the book?
(a) Retirement.
(b) Death.
(c) A new home.
(d) His admiral position.

3. What keeps the magistrate up at night during the time when the Colonel is interrogating the many prisoners?
(a) The army soldiers.
(b) The screams of the prisoners.
(c) The mess hall.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does the Colonel want to obtain from the prisoners when he seeks to interrogate them in a cruel way?
(a) Devastation.
(b) Truth.
(c) Death.
(d) Humiliation.

5. What does the magistrate do for the girl when he goes out to find her on the streets after she runs away again?
(a) Gives her more money.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Washes her and bandages her.
(d) Locks her in her room.

Short Answer Questions

1. The magistrate shows the _______________ to the Colonel when the Colonel is in the town for a visit.

2. Who has sent the Colonel to the area where the magistrate is in charge so that he can look into rumors that have spread?

3. The magistrate thinks the barbarians became corrupted because they lost their _________ somewhere along the way.

4. The Colonel uses the _____________ to organize a raid on the barbarians and to begin fighting back in the uprising.

5. What does the blind girl seem to agree to do on a daily basis, though there has been no conversation?

(see the answer key)

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