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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dunworthy realize is as Badri is talking?
(a) That Badri has a backup.
(b) That the solution is in moving back to the day Kivrin departs.
(c) That Badri made a critical error when dialing the coordinates for Kivrin.
(d) Nothing that he can put his finger on.

2. How is Agnes faring?
(a) She is better.
(b) She has no sign of the plague.
(c) She is quite ill but seems likely to survive.
(d) She is getting worse.

3. What does Andrews respond when asked to come take Badri's place?
(a) He declines.
(b) He says it will take him 2 days to get there.
(c) He is also ill and can not help.
(d) He says he will come in a few days when the innoculations have had time to be effective.

4. Why do the bells stop tolling?
(a) The bell rope broke.
(b) The plague is spent.
(c) The Bishop orders them to stop.
(d) The clapper broke.

5. What does Montoya admit?
(a) She sent antibiotics with Kivrin.
(b) She had Kivrin get an extra boost of gamma globulin.
(c) She was ill before anyone else.
(d) She forges Basingame's signature.

6. What does Dunworthy realize as he wakes?
(a) He was still in the lab.
(b) He was sore from hitting his head.
(c) It is days past the rendezvous date.
(d) He was in his apartment.

7. What day is it at the opening of Chapter 17?
(a) Christmas.
(b) New Years.
(c) Colin's birthday.
(d) Thanksgiving.

8. About what does Kivrin talk to Rosemund?
(a) Her approaching marriage to Sir Bloet.
(b) That rats spread the plague.
(c) That she shouldn't touch ill people without gloves.
(d) Keeping clean.

9. Who does Imeyne blame for the scourge?
(a) Fr. Roche.
(b) Eliwys.
(c) Kivrin.
(d) God.

10. Why has Fr. Roche consecrated part of the green?
(a) So the sick can feel at peace that they will be buried in holy ground.
(b) He has not because he is not allowed to do so.
(c) Because the church yard is almost full.
(d) So the dead will not have to be carried far.

11. What makes Mary begin to believe that the illness is not the South Carolina strain of flu?
(a) Because it does not usually become a respiratory problem
(b) Because it becomes a respiratory problem so rapidly.
(c) Because of the deaths.
(d) Because its virus does not seem susceptible to that strain's vaccine.

12. What does Eliwys ask the boy who brings the missive from the bishop?
(a) If he is feeling alright.
(b) If his town has been hit by the plague.
(c) If he has seen Gawyn.
(d) Nothing; she knows it's useles.

13. Who does Sir Bloet bring with him?
(a) Gawyn.
(b) No one.
(c) His shrewish sister and a large entourage of servants.
(d) Three brothers who are hoping to find wives.

14. When Kirvin had read the document about the last rites when she was in her own time, what did she think at that time about the document?
(a) She does not remember reading any such document.
(b) That it was insane to worry about last rites.
(c) That the church was at least a little flexible.
(d) That it was frivolous.

15. What does Mary urge Dunworthy to do when he is angry?
(a) Breathe deeply.
(b) Have some compassion for Badri who is still a very sick man.
(c) Mary knows better than to talk to Dunworthy when he is this way.
(d) To think before he acts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kivrin hope has died?

2. What is Dunworthy horrified about?

3. Who is missing?

4. What is Eliwys concerned about?

5. What does Gilchrist have no intention of doing?

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