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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 girl says that she doesn't like _____________ and wants to stay with her own people.
(a) The magistrate.
(b) The army.
(c) The food.
(d) The settlement.

2. What does the group end up losing in the winds of a fierce storm, never to recover it again?
(a) A bag of food.
(b) A goat.
(c) A horse.
(d) A tent.

3. Various measures are undertaken in anticipation of barbarian attacks, such as ___________ and vigilance.
(a) Torture.
(b) Rallies.
(c) Raids.
(d) Signs.

4. Where are the prisoners placed in order to keep them from escaping from the colonial town?
(a) Factory.
(b) Barracks.
(c) Stocks.
(d) Schoolhouse.

5. The magistrate realizes that one of the family members has been ________________, but the evidence was hidden.
(a) Tortured.
(b) Let go.
(c) Poisoned.
(d) Killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Without informing anyone, the magistrate takes ___________ soldiers and heads into the mountains on the trip.

2. Rumors begin to spread that the barbarians are thinking about threatening the _____________ during their actions.

3. The magistrate believes that his trip could be seen as a way to restore good relationships with the ______________.

4. Who does the group encounter on their tenth day of traveling in the wilderness?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when the group encounters some indigenous people as they are traveling on the tenth day?

4. What happens to the family that the Colonel wants to interrogate when they come into town?

5. What happens when there is little food left after eight days of travel in the mountains?

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

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

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

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

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

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