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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Kivrin's wagon located?
(a) The wagon is wrapped around a tree.
(b) A short distance from the road.
(c) The wagon does not make it.
(d) About 2 miles from the spot she was supposed to be.

2. Why does Kivrin hide a box?
(a) She is afraid of brigands.
(b) To have it for all her equipment later.
(c) She is afraid someone would find her with it and think she was a witch.
(d) To use it later to locate the drop site.

3. Where is the entire village going?
(a) To a festival.
(b) To a baptism.
(c) To find the traditional yule log.
(d) To hear a new priest.

4. What does Kivrin try to do with the wagon?
(a) Move it closer to the road.
(b) Sleep in it.
(c) Take it apart.
(d) Hide it.

5. Upon what is Ms. Montoya working?
(a) A time paradox program.
(b) A new time travel module.
(c) A language translation program.
(d) An archaeological dig.

6. Why do they generally not send historians to the medieval period?
(a) They are afraid of bringing back the plague.
(b) There is not much to learn from that time period.
(c) It is dangerous.
(d) The language is too different from modern English.

7. What is the mother like?
(a) Overbearing.
(b) Funny.
(c) Kind.
(d) Cruel.

8. Where is James Dunworthy a faculty member?
(a) Eaton History Department.
(b) Oxford Religious Studies Department.
(c) Oxford History Department.
(d) Oxford Archeology Department.

9. What do the two women help Kivrin do?
(a) Use the chamberpot.
(b) Change clothes.
(c) Walk outside.
(d) Brush her hair.

10. What is Dunworthy entering at the opening of the novel?
(a) The faculty lounge.
(b) The Dean's office.
(c) The Faculty cafeteria.
(d) A viewing chamber.

11. What connection do Mary and Dunworthy find with the spread of the virus?
(a) A dance.
(b) A fly species.
(c) A mosquito.
(d) The water.

12. With what does Dunworthy begin dealing?
(a) An angry department head.
(b) How to contact Badri's relatives to let them know he is deceased.
(c) The problems of quarantine.
(d) If he wants to follow through on asking Mary to be his wife.

13. What does Kivrin believe she has?
(a) Colitis.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) The plague.
(d) The flu.

14. What is Badri supposed to do?
(a) Wait in the lab for Kivrin's return signal.
(b) Get a fix on Kivrin's location.
(c) Watch Kivrin on the video screen.
(d) Monitor Kivrin's vital signs.

15. What does Dunworthy try to learn from Badri?
(a) The name of his guardian.
(b) Nothing at this point as Badri is still unconscious.
(c) Where Kivrin is.
(d) The names of those he has come in contact with.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they do to the city?

2. What does Kivrin note in her first entry in her Doomsday Book?

3. What does Kivrin think she sees?

4. What is wrong with Kivrin?

5. With whom is Dunworthy talking about the epidemic?

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