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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion is the land of Aclar?
(a) There are no churches.
(b) People choose their own religion.
(c) It is Catholic.
(d) It is atheistic.

2. Who did the Christian encounter in Severo's dream?
(a) St. Augustine.
(b) A Saracen prince.
(c) Fra Murta.
(d) An angel with a flaming sword.

3. Why is Palinor bound with cordeles and garrotes?
(a) He has confessed his heresy.
(b) He has people coming to rescue him.
(c) He refuses to confess.
(d) He beat one of the guards.

4. Why does Severo insist that Palinor has not sinned?
(a) He is a kind and gentle man.
(b) He has followed his conscience.
(c) He has harmed no one.
(d) He is a king.

5. What has Palinor the most afraid?
(a) Dying in fire.
(b) Not paying his debts.
(c) Being decapitated.
(d) Not believing in God.

6. Why is Severo allowed into Palinor's cell?
(a) He was sent by Fra Murta.
(b) He knows the jailer.
(c) He showed his ordination ring.
(d) He said he was sent by God.

7. What do the nuns believe about Amara and Fra Murta?
(a) He has accepted that she knows nothing of God.
(b) He appreciates her childish wisdom.
(c) Fra Murta has rejected Amara's answers.
(d) He wants to learn more from her.

8. What does Severo feel about the shedding of blood?
(a) He is indifferent to it.
(b) It is never a good thing.
(c) It is a grace for the church.
(d) It is a necessary evil.

9. What does Severo suggest to Palinor?
(a) That he has amnesia and can't remember his religion.
(b) That he admits he believed in God at one time.
(c) That he kill Severo and escape.
(d) That he claim a visit by an angel.

10. What does Palinor tell Fra Murta about his captains?
(a) They will have revenge.
(b) They will torture Fra Murta.
(c) They will demand payment.
(d) They will come for his body.

11. Why does Beneditx say his faith is gone?
(a) He thinks the church murders people.
(b) He realizes he never really believed.
(c) He thinks the world is too ugly to have been created by God.
(d) His reasoning upon which is was based was faulty.

12. To what fire is Fra Murta referring?
(a) The fire in the tavern.
(b) The fire in the next world.
(c) The fire at the blacksmith's.
(d) The fire that kills Palinor.

13. Where is Palinor confined by Fra Murta?
(a) In a deep dungeon.
(b) In a cell with no windows.
(c) In the city jail.
(d) In the church basement.

14. Why does Amara begin climbing the mountain?
(a) To run from Jamie.
(b) To find her sister's grave.
(c) To see the ocean.
(d) To follow a wolf's spoor.

15. What does Palinor wonder about passionately religious people?
(a) Why they never came to his country.
(b) Why they believe in God.
(c) Why he had to land among them.
(d) Why they are murderous and cruel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amara say about the chapel?

2. What did Dolca spend the money from Severo on?

3. Why does Jamie's mother suggest it was a whore who birthed Amara?

4. What does Beneditx feel when he tries to pray?

5. How does Severo feel about Fra Murta?

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