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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: 1142 - 1145.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What transpires when Tom and his quarrymen arrive at the quarry to start getting stone?
(a) The men refuse to work and go on strike.
(b) William Hamleigh's men are mining the quarry and will not let Tom enter.
(c) They mine plenty of stone to begin the cathedral.
(d) They find the quarry has been mined out.

2. What does Philip decide to do with the baby that Francis brought to the monastery?
(a) He leaves the baby at a convent.
(b) He gives the baby to an orphanage.
(c) He gives the baby to a peasant family.
(d) He decides to keep the baby and raise it in the monastery.

3. Why do three men ride behind the prisoner?
(a) They try to keep order.
(b) They mock the prisoner publicly.
(c) They are his accusers.
(d) They recite the prisoner's crime.

4. What do the old women in the crowd conclude about the person at whom the prisoner is looking?
(a) She is about to die.
(b) He is the prisoner's brother.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) He is old and weary.

5. Why do the townspeople find the whole situation of the hanging strange?
(a) They are not used to seeing a man hanged.
(b) They don't understand why the condemned man would steal something he couldn't resell.
(c) Hangings usually take place in private.
(d) They find it strange that no one is going to see the hanging.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Alfred throw Aliena out of the house?

2. What does Aliena consider when she goes to the tallest tower of the cathedral?

3. What does Philip's brother, Francis, surprise him with when he comes to visit?

4. What type of cathedral does Tom design for Prior Philip?

5. What is the secret compromise that Philip proposes to the Hamleighs about the forests and quarry in Shiring?

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