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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. What happens to Philip's and Waleran's relationship after Philip makes a compromise with the Hamleighs?
(a) They become close partners.
(b) They become enemies for life.
(c) They become close friends.
(d) They become indifferent to one another.

2. Why does Lord William Hamleigh dismiss Tom and his stonemasons?
(a) William decides to move to a different town.
(b) William finds a cheaper builder.
(c) William decides to live in his father's castle.
(d) William's engagement is broken off.

3. How does the prisoner react when one of the boys spits in his face?
(a) He tells the boy that he forgives him.
(b) He snarls a curse and lunges at the boy.
(c) He begins to cry.
(d) He ignores the boy.

4. What is the secret compromise that Philip proposes to the Hamleighs about the forests and quarry in Shiring?
(a) Kingsbridge gets the farmland and the Hamleighs get the forest.
(b) Kingsbridge gets the earl's money and the Hamleighs get the earldom.
(c) Kingsbridge gets the forest and the Hamleigh's get the quarries.
(d) Kingsbridge gets the forest and quarries, while the Hamleighs get the earldom and farmland.

5. What horrifies Philip when he first sees Kingsbridge?
(a) Poverty
(b) The collapsed cathedral
(c) Ruin and disrepair
(d) Cruelty and torture

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the condition of Tom and his family by the time Christmas arrives?

2. What angers Philip about the monks right after he arrives at his new assignment?

3. Who does Philip find hiding in Earl Bartholomew's castle?

4. What is Tom Builder's one passion in life?

5. What is the historical significance of the ship that flounders off Balfour?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the actions of the townspeople before the hanging takes place.

2. Of what is the crime that the condemned man has been found guilty?

3. What does the condemned man do as the noose is placed around his neck?

4. Describe the conversation the young men have about witnessing other hangings.

5. Describe the condemned man's appearance.

6. What is Tom Builder's greatest passion in life?

7. Describe the plan Philip devises to get more work done on the cathedral before the visit from Bishop Henry.

8. What is the deal that Archdeacon Waleran makes with Philip after the death of Prior James, the Prior of Kingsbridge?

9. Why does Lord William Hamleigh fire Tom from the job of building him a house?

10. What does Tom discover when he has a change of heart and goes back to Agnes' grave to get the baby?

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