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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 is the nickname of Assistant Reverend Thorvardur Jonsson?
(a) Bjorn.
(b) Thorv.
(c) Toti.
(d) Steina.

2. Why is the Jonsdottir mother, Margret, distressed at the beginning of the novel?
(a) She is distressed from having to keep the farm working.
(b) She is distressed, because her family doesn't have enough money.
(c) She is distressed from having children and servants to look after.
(d) She is distressed, because her sons are troublemakers.

3. What is the real reason Roslin visits her friend, Margret in Chapter 3?
(a) Roslin wants advice about her own marriage.
(b) Roslin wishes to give Margret a gift
(c) Roslin wants to help the girls with their work.
(d) Roslin wants to gossip about Agnes.

4. What is Natan holding in Agnes' dream in Chapter 3?
(a) A glass beaker filled with the scum off brewing herbs.
(b) A picture of Agnes' mother.
(c) A pair of scissors covered in blood.
(d) A raven who flies away after Agnes arrives.

5. Why will the murderers be executed in Iceland?
(a) It is an economical decision.
(b) The families of the victims wants to see the executions.
(c) Iceland is where the murders took place.
(d) The District Commissioner wants to see the executions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does this story take place?

2. Why does Agnes turn Reverend Toti away in Chapter 3?

3. Who catches Agnes looking at the silver brooch in Chapter 3?

4. Why does Margret want to send her daughters away in Chapter 1?

5. How does Margret treat Agnes when she arrives in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Blondal feel about asking the Assistant Reverend Thorvardur Jonsson to meet with Agnes?

2. Analyze Agnes' quote, "I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It's written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink" (132).

3. What happens in Agnes' dream? What's one possible translation? (113).

4. How does Agnes feel while working in the field at the Kornsa farm?

5. What is the issue Agnes has with Reverend Toti?

6. How does Margret express herself to Agnes the first morning?

7. What does Agnes mean when she says that people did not see her; they see two dead men in a burning farm with a knife?

8. Agnes thinks, "Here, man. Here is your smile. Is it a good one? Do you see my lips crack? Do you see my teeth" (39)? Why would she say this to an officer?

9. How does Agnes respond to Reverend Toti's initial comments about prayer and absolution?

10. What does Margret think about the morning after Agnes' arrival?

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