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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. The magistrate thinks the barbarians became corrupted because they lost their _________ somewhere along the way.
(a) Religion.
(b) Values.
(c) Families.
(d) Conscience.

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

3. The soldiers carry _____________ and try to conserve food and water the best they can as they travel.
(a) First aid equipment.
(b) Notes.
(c) Maps.
(d) Firewood.

4. The magistrate believes that his trip could be seen as a way to restore good relationships with the ______________.
(a) Aborigines.
(b) Norse folk.
(c) Barbarians.
(d) Indians.

5. Who believes the family is a threat to the colony, which is why they are picked up on their way through town?
(a) Colonel Joll.
(b) Colonel God.
(c) Colonel Jobe.
(d) The magistrate.

Short Answer Questions

1. The magistrate is worried about the __________ of the girl while also being attracted to her beauty.

2. Who is the one being tortured which causes the person from #16 to react in the way that he/she does?

3. ______________wants to distance himself from all of the killing before his retirement begins to be a reality.

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

5. The Colonel likes to use various stages of torture when he interrogates people, increasing the _________ at each stage.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the magistrate doubt about the Empire, as he thinks about the way they are handling the barbarians?

2. What happens with the girl as they continue on their trip together through the mountains?

3. What makes the blind girl on the street even more pitiful to the magistrate when he sees her for the first time?

4. When does the magistrate ask about the injuries the girl has suffered once she is back in his home?

5. What is the result of the raid that the Colonel tries to arrange with the help of the boy who he has interrogated?

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

7. What are some of the hobbies that the magistrate decides to take up again even though he should be preparing for attacks?

8. Why does the magistrate decide to offer the blind girl a chance to work in his home for the winter?

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

10. What does the magistrate feel about the blind girl he sees on the street at the beginning of this section of the book?

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