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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. Who is the ruling chief?

2. What sort of business has made Edward Shockley prosperous?

3. Who is the current king?

4. The residents of Sarum fear an invasion by whom?

5. Why must Tep leave the camp after three years?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the political troubles between the king and the knights begin?

2. What connection do rats and fleas have to the Black Death?

3. Why does Dluc tell Krona that they must sacrifice Krona's firstborn?

4. Why does Godefroi ask John of Shockley to take his wife and children away?

5. Why must the King of France settle a dispute in England?

6. Why does the marriage between Porteus and Tosutigus's daughter fail?

7. What are some examples of quarrels between women disturbing the peace.

8. Why is Godric hanged even after his uncle pays a bribe?

9. How did the practice of farming come to England?

10. What religious secret does Petrus conceal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Briefly explain the most significant political upheavals mentioned in the chapter "New World."

Essay Topic 2

In the course of the novel various female characters represent the role of women in their respective times. Some of these characters are assertive individuals at a time when that was uncommon for women. Which female characters demonstrated unusual freedom?

Essay Topic 3

Religious conflicts as presented in the novel range from hunter-gatherers conflicting over worship of the sun god versus the moon god to sixteenth century English disagreeing over who should be head of the English church. Are there any religious conflicts that seem to be less about actual religious belief and more about politics?

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