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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Severo take Amara to the nunnery at Sant Clara?
(a) For the nuns to care for her and teach her.
(b) To ask if anyone might know who her parents are.
(c) So the Mother Superior can give him advise.
(d) So she can be allowed to die with dignity.

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

3. What does Margarlido tell her husband?
(a) That he needs to put Josefa out of the house.
(b) That Josefa has been insolent.
(c) That Josefa needs a husband.
(d) That Josefa is pregnant.

4. Who accidentally lets Amara out among some dogs?
(a) Esteban, the dog caretaker.
(b) Palinor.
(c) Josefa.
(d) The Mother Superior.

5. What does Amara do with the salt water on her body?
(a) Licks it.
(b) Breaks out.
(c) Takes a bath.
(d) Wipes it off.

6. What does Severo wonder as he lies on his pallet?
(a) Who God really is.
(b) Who he is.
(c) Why Beneditx has not been successful with Palinor.
(d) Why Palinor is there.

7. Who ends up caring for Amara?
(a) The mother superior.
(b) The nuns rotate turns.
(c) An elderly nun named Maria.
(d) Josefa.

8. Where does Amara go?
(a) Out into the woods.
(b) To the top of the bell tower.
(c) To the cellar.
(d) To the sanctuary.

9. What does Severo encounter at the entrance to his home?
(a) A new fountain.
(b) A group of soldiers.
(c) Amara who has run away from the nunnery.
(d) A group of shepherds.

10. What does Palinor say truth is like?
(a) Many rivers.
(b) The sky.
(c) The ocean.
(d) A mountain.

11. What is it that they find in a cave?
(a) A rabid wolf.
(b) A lion and cubs.
(c) A wild child.
(d) Nothing.

12. What is the time and setting supposed to resemble?
(a) 1450 in Catalina.
(b) 1100 in Tasmania.
(c) 1500 in Atlantis.
(d) 1450 in Mallorca.

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

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

15. What does Palinor ask Dolca to do?
(a) Undress.
(b) Read to him.
(c) Help him in the garden.
(d) Write a letter to his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the shepherd tell the men at the snow house?

2. What toy has Jaime brought Amara?

3. What does Gillem offer to do?

4. Who takes in Josefa?

5. What is the greatest task ever asked of the nuns at Sant Clara?

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