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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 prefers to bear the ___________ himself rather than to leave it for someone else to bear.
(a) Burden.
(b) Torture.
(c) Barbarians.
(d) Truth.

2. What does the magistrate return to the crowd with after he can't stand to see the sight of the natives at first?
(a) Gun.
(b) Chain.
(c) Knife.
(d) Bucket of water.

3. When the magistrate shouts in protest of what is happening, a solider hits him in the _______________.
(a) Leg.
(b) Arm.
(c) Cheek bone.
(d) Chest.

4. ______________ who pass by every now and then move them as if the soldiers move the items as though the soldiers moved.
(a) Priests.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

5. While the magistrate is forced to live on the street, the barbarians hide while their ____________ are being destroyed.
(a) Families.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Huts.
(d) Weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. The magistrate is in charge of new __________ which are being built at the same time as the farming begins.

2. As the guards tighten the wires of the prisoners, they then force the prisoners to _____________ in the area where they are taken.

3. The magistrate learns that no one knows what happened to the ____________ who were unable to stay together.

4. Even when one of the soldiers is injured during the search for barbarians, the only soldiers just ____________ in response.

5. The soldiers were left by the barbarians to freeze in the _____________ and to starve in the desert.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the hobbies that the magistrate goes back to after visiting and sleeping with Mai?

2. Why does Colonel Joll come to the town where the magistrate is now in control?

3. What does the magistrate begin to believe about the consistency of the law as seen in the cases he has previously conducted?

4. What do the people learn about the barbarians who lured the army into the desert?

5. What does the magistrate witness when he leaves the settlement and gets through the gate to get to the lakeside?

6. What does the Colonel do to the natives who have their cheeks wired and their wrists wired?

7. What happens to the way the magistrate looks at the girl who he used to take pity on when she is tortured?

8. What happens to the magistrate as a result of not having any activities to do during his captivity?

9. What does the magistrate learn when he finally gets through the gate in order to leave?

10. What happens with the fire that is being set along the riverbanks?

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