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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. When the magistrate leaves the girl's apartment, he proceeds toward the ____________ gate where he goes unrecognized.
(a) South.
(b) West.
(c) North.
(d) East.

2. Unable to defend themselves, the barbarians are vulnerable and deprived of their _______________ as a result.
(a) Humanity.
(b) Money.
(c) Misery.
(d) Food.

3. What destroys wildlife and creates more opportunities for the desert to advance into the area?
(a) Water.
(b) Chemicals.
(c) Farming.
(d) Fire.

4. The magistrate is in charge of new __________ which are being built at the same time as the farming begins.
(a) Barracks.
(b) Trenches.
(c) Wells.
(d) Prisons.

5. The magistrate accuses the ______ of triggering conflicts, being more barbaric than the barbarians themselves.
(a) People.
(b) Army.
(c) Footsoldiers.
(d) Colonel Joll.

Short Answer Questions

1. The magistrate prefers to bear the ___________ himself rather than to leave it for someone else to bear.

2. The magistrate decides all he can do is to go on living even though his journey may be ________________.

3. The girl that the magistrate loved became less and less of a ___________ when she was being tortured by the army.

4. What do people throw at Colonel Joll's carriage when he and his men decide to leave?

5. The magistrate finds it difficult to get used to ______________ in the humiliation of his imprisonment.

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the barbarians inspire fear which eventually turns into paranoia?

2. What is the sight that inspires fear and panic in the town as the magistrate describes in the story?

3. What does the magistrate begin to believe about the consistency of the law as seen in the cases he has previously conducted?

4. When does the magistrate believe the barbarians might be able to be defeated?

5. What are some of the hobbies that the magistrate goes back to after visiting and sleeping with Mai?

6. What does the magistrate think he might write down if he were to write a record of the imperial post?

7. What does the magistrate witness when he leaves the settlement and gets through the gate to get to the lakeside?

8. What do the men who are digging the wells find when they are beginning the process of constructing new wells?

9. What do the people learn about the barbarians who lured the army into the desert?

10. What begins to spread among the soldiers as the rumors of the barbarians begin to spread more rapidly?

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