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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. What does Severo feel about the shedding of blood?

2. From where have Joffre and Dolca walked?

3. What does Fra Murta do while on the island?

4. What does Severo wish he could do?

5. Why does Taddeo want Josefa to return home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Severo say to Fra Murta to explain his behavior concerning Palinor? How does the Fra feel about it?

5. What does Rafal tell Severo and what does Severo do?

6. What happens when Palinor is tortured?

7. What does Amara do after Jamie leaves her?

8. What does Sor Agnete realize about the crucifix in the chapel?

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

10. What happens with Beneditx?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

This book raises questions of what is human and what is animal, as well as questions of sin and forgiveness. Amara, who the nuns are trying to reform from her wolf-like ways, is treated horribly when she is gang-raped by shepherds.

1. Would you call the behavior of the shepherds more human than Amara's behavior at the Abbey? Why or why not?

2. Discuss what you believe is the difference between a human and an animal. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. What do you think the nuns should do with Amara at this point in the novel?

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