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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. With whom does Peredur walk in the procession to St. Winifred's chapel?

2. What are Sioned's servants carrying when they approach Prior Robert and the brothers?

3. When does Brother Columbanus realize the form appearing in front of him is Sioned?

4. In Brother Columbanus' dream, after St. Winifred forgives Rhisiart, what else does she offer him?

5. What keeps the people from making Brother Columbanus a saint?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news does Bened relay to Brother Cadfael during Bened's pilgrimage to Walsingham?

2. What is Brother Cadafel's plan to handle the situation involving St. Winifred's remains and Brother Columbanus' body?

3. What is Peredur's confession at Rhisiart's funeral?

4. How do Brother Cadfael and Sioned test Brother Columbanus to determine if he killed Rhisiart?

5. What are the results when Sioned strays from the plan to test Brother Columbanus to see if he killed Rhisiart?

6. What does Brother Cadfael believe about St. Winifred when Sioned tells him why she deviated from the plan to get Brother Columbanus to confess to her father's murder?

7. How does Brother Cadfael capitalize on the people's faith and belief in miracles when he conceals Brother Columbanus' death?

8. What does Brother Cadfael do to manage Prior Robert when Bened tells of the miracles occurring at St. Winifred's former grave?

9. What does Brother Columbanus claim that St. Winifred told him in a dream?

10. What are Brother Columbanus' possible motives, according to Sioned and Brother Cadfael?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several components of quality literature include:

1) a use of descriptive word

2) a use of analogies, metaphors, and similes

3) an attention-grabbing beginning

4) details

5) an appeal to the five senses.

Is A Morbid Taste for Bones: A Mediaeval Whodunnit an example of quality literature? Why or why not? Give examples from the story using three of the five components of quality literature to explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 6, Brother Cadfael explains to Bened, "There are holy persons outside orders as ever there are in, and not to trifle with truth, as good men out of the Christian church as most I've met within it."

In Chapter 9, Brother Cadfael explains to Father Huw, ". . . both men and women partake of the same human nature, Huw. We both bleed when we're wounded."

Explain the meaning of Brother Cadfael's statements. In what situations in the story did Brother Cadfael make these statements? What do these statements tell us about Brother Cadfael? What is the importance of these statements to the plot?

Essay Topic 3

Subplots have the same story elements as the main plot of a story. Explain one subplot from A Morbid Taste for Bones: A Mediaeval Whodunnit using exposition, inciting force, central conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Explain how the subplot is connected to the main plot of the story.

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