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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the nuns decide the best approach is to helping Amara?
(a) To pray near her all the time.
(b) To keep her imprisoned.
(c) To love her.
(d) To let her run wild.

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

3. About what do the villagers tease Esperanca?
(a) About her desire to learn to read and write.
(b) About her son's tendency to wander for days without working.
(c) About a reward she is expecting from Palinor.
(d) About her fixing some clothing for the village idiot.

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

5. What does Amara ask Josefa?
(a) Why Josefa never prays like the other nuns.
(b) To go back to the sea to collect mussels.
(c) If she can be free.
(d) If there is a God.

6. Who takes in Josefa?
(a) Josefa's older sister.
(b) A tailor to be his wife.
(c) The nunnery at Sant Clara.
(d) The local school system who need a new teacher.

7. What does Palinor wonder about his wife?
(a) If he has another woman.
(b) If he left her intentionally.
(c) If she thinks he is dead or if she has taken up with his cousin.
(d) If she is still alive.

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

9. How many parties does the reader see traveling on the mountain?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 10.
(d) 2.

10. What is one of Beneditx's outstanding characteristics?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Humility.
(d) Ignorance.

11. How do the nuns know Amara misses Josefa?
(a) Amara makes a sound like Josefa's name.
(b) Amara grabs the nun's habit and shakes it.
(c) They do not know she misses Josefa.
(d) Amara smiles when Josefa's name is mentioned.

12. What do the group who come to the convent want?
(a) To ask the Mother Superior a question.
(b) To bring the nuns some food.
(c) To see the wolf child.
(d) To report they saw Josefa swimming naked.

13. Who sends a priest for the child?
(a) Rafal
(b) Juan.
(c) Miguel.
(d) Severo.

14. What does Severo give Jaime?
(a) Enough gold to buy three fields.
(b) A donkey and cart.
(c) A herd of sheep.
(d) Two letters of recommendation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joffre ask Palinor?

2. What does Joffre reveal to Palinor?

3. What does Margarlido tell her husband?

4. Where does Severo send Palinor?

5. What does Beneditx ask Palinor to do?

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