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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the group encounter on their tenth day of traveling in the wilderness?
(a) The barbarians.
(b) The Bureau.
(c) The women's family.
(d) The army.

2. When the blind girl finally tells the magistrate that she is willing to ____________, he finds himself to be indifferent.
(a) Leave.
(b) Work harder.
(c) Have sex.
(d) Marry him.

3. What does the magistrate offer in exchange for the horses of the barbarians, though they refuse to do so?
(a) Food.
(b) Silver.
(c) Bronze.
(d) Gold.

4. Rumors begin to spread that the barbarians are thinking about threatening the _____________ during their actions.
(a) Colony.
(b) Magistrate.
(c) Empire.
(d) Colonel.

5. In order to shorten their trip, the magistrate and the soldiers decide to take a path that has ___________________.
(a) Clean water.
(b) Been used quite often.
(c) Never been previously attempted.
(d) Underground portions.

6. Who becomes more open as the journey progresses, conversing with the soldiers freely?
(a) The nurse.
(b) The leader.
(c) The girl.
(d) The magistrate.

7. The prisoners have different _____________ and lack hygiene, which causes a number of problems while they are captured.
(a) Languages.
(b) Senses.
(c) Faces.
(d) Customs.

8. What does the blind girl seem to agree to do on a daily basis, though there has been no conversation?
(a) The chores.
(b) Bathing rituals.
(c) Sleeping on the floor of the bedroom.
(d) The cooking.

9. The blind girl feels ____________ of the work that she has been given, so she runs away from the magistrate's home.
(a) Unworthy.
(b) Unable to handle all.
(c) Incapable.
(d) Unwilling to do all.

10. All that the magistrate knows about the girl is that she is the ____________ of the man who died during the interrogation.
(a) Daughter.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Aunt.
(d) Sister.

11. The boy admits to theft of __________ and arming by his clan during the torture by the Colonel.
(a) Oil.
(b) Food.
(c) Paper.
(d) Horses.

12. Over time, the magistrate begins to feel less attracted to ____________ and questions why she's in his house.
(a) The child.
(b) The lover.
(c) The maid.
(d) The nurse.

13. The magistrate believes that the barbarians only different in their tolerance for ___________ and slovenliness, and the magistrate admires them.
(a) War.
(b) Peace.
(c) Death.
(d) Torture.

14. With the alleged barbarian uprising, the magistrate is unable to remain _______________ in the issues which take place.
(a) Uncaring.
(b) Active.
(c) Uninvolved.
(d) Useful.

15. The Colonel brings back a large group of prisoners who turn out to be a group of _______________.
(a) Farmers.
(b) Fishermen.
(c) Barbarians.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the prisoners placed in order to keep them from escaping from the colonial town?

2. The blind girl admits that she stays with the magistrate because she has no ______________________.

3. When the winter finally ends, the ___________ trapping can begin again, according to this section of the story.

4. What does the group end up losing in the winds of a fierce storm, never to recover it again?

5. The magistrate finds the blind girl to be ___________________ and unresponsive when he tries to connect with her.

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