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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Palinor tell Dolca she can do?
(a) Refuse him.
(b) Read so sweetly.
(c) Tell Severo.
(d) Plant good crops.

2. How many words can Amara speak?
(a) A couple dozen.
(b) Three.
(c) Almost a dozen.
(d) Hundreds.

3. Where do they decide to send Palinor?
(a) To Constantinople.
(b) To Severo.
(c) To Rome.
(d) To prison again.

4. What is Beneditx doing?
(a) Writing a treatise on angels.
(b) Praying 24 hours a day.
(c) Baptizing animals.
(d) Making holy water.

5. What is one problem about Amara as far as the nuns are concerned?
(a) She is female.
(b) She is turns out to be male.
(c) She is very strong and can hurt people.
(d) She only eats raw meat and the nuns do not eat meat.

6. What does Palinor ask to do?
(a) Go home if he says he believes in God.
(b) Redesign the house.
(c) Paint.
(d) Work in the garden.

7. What do Severo and Beneditx decide to do about Palinor?
(a) To ask him what he believes.
(b) To ask him to pretend to believe in God.
(c) To send him to his own country.
(d) To put him back in prison for a while.

8. Why is Dolca afraid?
(a) She is afraid she will get in trouble for writing Palinor's wife.
(b) She is not afraid.
(c) She is a virgin.
(d) She does not usually read in front of anyone.

9. What stimulates Severo?
(a) The wolf child's speech.
(b) The idea of no god.
(c) The intellectual discussions.
(d) The idea of no angels.

10. Why is Beneditx worried?
(a) He is not worried.
(b) That Beneditx may be getting too ill to stay and talk to Palinor.
(c) That Palinor may convince him God does not exist.
(d) That Palinor refuses to convert and will be burned at the stake.

11. Why is Beneditx angry?
(a) That Severo is removing Beneditx from Palinor's presence.
(b) That his intellectual pride has been so great and yet his mind has been useless.
(c) That Palinor refuses to convert.
(d) That Palinor laughs at him.

12. Who captures and rapes Amara repeatedly?
(a) A wild cave man.
(b) Some hunters.
(c) No one.
(d) Some shepherds.

13. How is the reversal of roles succeeding between Beneditx and Palinor?
(a) It is creating some doubt in Beneditx about God.
(b) It is too early to tell.
(c) It is creating some doubt in Palinor about no God.
(d) It is not making Palinor come any closer to acknowledging a God.

14. What does Palinor have at home?
(a) A grandson.
(b) A wife and son.
(c) A palace.
(d) Several children though his wife is dead.

15. What does Beneditx think will convince Palinor of God?
(a) The story of Beneditx's own conversion.
(b) The five proofs of St. Thomas.
(c) The story of the blind man.
(d) The three points of St. Augustine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Severo encounter at the entrance to his home?

2. Who diagnoses Amara?

3. What does Severo wonder as he lies on his pallet?

4. What does Margarlido tell her husband?

5. What takes Beneditx and Severo by surprise?

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