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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. During Mandel's speech, some of his men return with ___________, including hens and cocks which are placed into the oven.
(a) Livestock.
(b) Fresh supplies.
(c) New weapons.
(d) Stolen goods.

2. Only when the barbarians realize they cannot live without the skills of the ____________, perhaps then they can be won.
(a) Magistrate.
(b) Herbalist.
(c) Colonel.
(d) White men.

3. The magistrate prefers to bear the ___________ himself rather than to leave it for someone else to bear.
(a) Barbarians.
(b) Burden.
(c) Truth.
(d) Torture.

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

5. The magistrate wanted to point out that it was worse to damage one's _____________ than to go ahead and to kill them.
(a) Cheek.
(b) Chest.
(c) Feet.
(d) Back.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the magistrate shouts in protest of what is happening, a solider hits him in the _______________.

2. The magistrate tries to explain that the people who live in the huts hide from the barbarians in the ______________.

3. The barbarians like to hide in the _________________ and wait for the soldiers to go away.

4. The soldiers use a _________ to search the empty huts that belong to the fishermen who are living nearby.

5. The officer the magistrate has spoken with seems to be equally capable of ___________ as of fulfilling his duties.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the magistrate advise the people of the town to do in order to make it through the winter?

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

3. What happens to the magistrate as a result of not having any activities to do during his captivity?

4. Why doesn't anyone want to gather wood in the area where the magistrate is now in control?

5. What does Mai tell the magistrate about the girl who used to live with him there?

6. What does the Colonel do to the natives who have their cheeks wired and their wrists wired?

7. What happens to the barbarians when they are locked up in their cells, according to the events the magistrate has witnessed?

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

9. What happens when the magistrate falls asleep in the room of one of the girls he used to sleep with?

10. What happens with the fire that is being set along the riverbanks?

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