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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. The magistrate has disagreements with the _____________ while new conscripts arrive to replace old soldiers.
(a) The hired help.
(b) His lover.
(c) The military.
(d) His wife.

3. The magistrate separates their _____________ and begins to resume his normal social life.
(a) Table.
(b) Chairs.
(c) Beds.
(d) Room.

4. Who does the magistrate find to be sleeping when he visits the family the following day?
(a) Grandfather.
(b) Mother.
(c) Brother.
(d) Sister.

5. What is NOT one of the hobbies that the magistrate returns to once the weather begins to turn cooler?
(a) Reading.
(b) Horseback riding.
(c) Collating maps.
(d) Antelope hunting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the magistrate reaching, which makes the reader think that he might be older than others in the book?

2. What does the girl get that she is unable to hide from the others, leading to a series of events?

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

4. With the alleged barbarian uprising, the magistrate is unable to remain _______________ in the issues which take place.

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

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