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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Colonel brings back a large group of prisoners who turn out to be a group of _______________.
(a) Women.
(b) Barbarians.
(c) Fishermen.
(d) Farmers.

2. The group begins their journey by traveling to the ___________ and then the valleys, where the nomads usually travel.
(a) Cave.
(b) Plain.
(c) Mountain.
(d) Desert.

3. What do the men think is associated with bad luck, so they have to perform a purification ritual before continuing on?
(a) A long journey.
(b) Little food.
(c) Menstruation.
(d) Dead horses.

4. When the group returns back to the settlement, they are greeted by a group of ______________.
(a) Children.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Women.
(d) Priests.

5. Rumors begin to spread that the barbarians are thinking about threatening the _____________ during their actions.
(a) Colonel.
(b) Colony.
(c) Empire.
(d) Magistrate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl get that she is unable to hide from the others, leading to a series of events?

2. Who believes the family is a threat to the colony, which is why they are picked up on their way through town?

3. The magistrate believes that the barbarians only different in their tolerance for ___________ and slovenliness, and the magistrate admires them.

4. The magistrate questions where torture is a ______________ method of eliciting information from the prisoners.

5. The magistrate is upset about incidents between the soldiers and the prisoners especially when _________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the result of the raid that the Colonel tries to arrange with the help of the boy who he has interrogated?

2. What happens when the girl in the group gets her period and is unable to hide it from the others?

3. What does the magistrate want the girl to make her own decision about when it comes to the end of the journey?

4. What does the magistrate decide to do as he feels frustrated with the relationship between him and he girl?

5. What makes the blind girl on the street even more pitiful to the magistrate when he sees her for the first time?

6. What causes troubles when the fishermen are put into the barracks together, causing problems for the magistrate?

7. What does the Colonel interrogate the fishermen about when he brings them in for questioning after their capture?

8. What does the magistrate doubt about the Empire, as he thinks about the way they are handling the barbarians?

9. What happens when the group encounters some indigenous people as they are traveling on the tenth day?

10. What does the magistrate find about the girl when they are performing the bathing ritual together day after day?

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