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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Jamie find out about Amara's birth?

2. Why does Fra Murta believe Amara answered his questions as she did?

3. How does Severo feel about Fra Murta?

4. What vow does Josefa break?

5. Why does Severo give Palinor to Fra Murta?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens with Beneditx?

2. What does Fra Murta ask Amara and how does she respond?

3. What does Severo hope about Fra Murta?

4. What does Amara do after Jamie leaves her?

5. Why is Josefa pleased with the way Amara is thinking?

6. What does Jamie find out when he asks around about abandoned babies?

7. Why is Severo looking on a map of the world?

8. Describe Severo's dream and what he sees is the moral in it.

9. What does Jamie find out about Amara's birth mother?

10. What does Eseranca say about Palinor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Now that Beneditx has spent time with Palinor, he realizes that a man can be good without knowing God. Palinor has been nothing but kind and respectful to the people he has encountered, and he has used his time at Saracen's House to study and to make practical improvements to the grounds and for its servants.

1. Write a comparison of how Beneditx's and Palinor's relationship has changed compared to two persons from very different cultures who get to know each other well.

2. If nonbelievers can be good and believers can be bad, explain what you think creates a good or a bad person.

3. Do you think Palinor is being illogical for helping people who might put him to death? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The abbess, like Beneditx, has lived a life cut off from the real world and doesn't encounter sins such as murder and bestiality. The murder was so uneventful to Amara, who grew up in world where killing was often frequent and necessary to eat, that she doesn't even remember why she murdered her sister.

1. Do you think someone like the abbess so cut off from reality is a good person to deal with Amara? Why or why not?

2. Why do you think the murder of her sister doesn't bother Amara?

3. Do you think Amara should be found guilty of murder? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Amara's upbringing by wolves, however, seems to have altered her in ways that cannot be changed, such as her dislike for human touch and contact, things that humans have long assumed are necessary for healthy living. Like an animal, Amara only seems to live in the present and seems unaware of how the past and future affect her.

1. Do you think that animals live only in the present? Why or why not?

2. Do you think if a human child really was raised by the wolves that child would ever be able to learn all of the intricacies of being human? Why or why not?

3. What do you think would be the effect on human society if humans lived mostly for the present without looking back to the past or ahead to the future?

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