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

2. The magistrate finds a blind girl begging on the street for ____________ on a cold winter day.
(a) Clothing.
(b) Money.
(c) Health care.
(d) Food.

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

4. The magistrate is worried about the __________ of the girl while also being attracted to her beauty.
(a) Health.
(b) Child.
(c) Work status.
(d) Family.

5. Without informing anyone, the magistrate takes ___________ soldiers and heads into the mountains on the trip.
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who believes the family is a threat to the colony, which is why they are picked up on their way through town?

4. After _________ days of traveling together, there is little food left in the supplies of the group.

5. The bulk of the story seems to be centered in what location in the world, according to the book notes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the magistrate want the girl to make her own decision about when it comes to the end of the journey?

2. What does the blind girl admit to the magistrate as the reason why she stays with him?

3. What does the magistrate find when he goes to visit the family who has been tortured by the Colonel?

4. Why does the magistrate want to notify the Bureau about the trip that he is taking with the girl?

5. What does the magistrate decide to do as he feels frustrated with the relationship between him and he girl?

6. Why is the magistrate unable to remain uninvolved during the alleged barbarian uprising?

7. Why was Colonel Joll send to the area where the Magistrate is in charge at the start of the story?

8. What does the Colonel interrogate the fishermen about when he brings them in for questioning after their capture?

9. What do the magistrate and the four soldiers do in order to make the trip to the mountains a bit shorter?

10. Why does the blind girl leave the magistrate's house after he offers her a job in his home?

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