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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. What does a medic ask of Dunworthy's group?
2. What does the Doomsday book record?
3. What is the student's mother who arrives certain of?
4. What does Badri ask when he is lucid for a moment?
5. Who is Mary Ahrens?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Badri keep saying and where does Dunworthy take him?
2. Describe some of the preparations Kivrin makes for the trip back in time.
3. What is Ms. Montoya doing as Kivrin is preparing for her trip, and how is this related to Kivrin?
4. Where do Dunworthy and Mary go and what are they waiting for?
5. What does Kivrin think in the confusion generated by her high fever?
6. Why is Dunworthy out trying to find an open store?
7. What does Badri believe and how does Dunworthy calm Badri's fears?
8. What are Dunworthy and the others told when they are released from the hospital?
9. Why is Kivrin having trouble understanding the people in the house and how does the situation improve?
10. What is Kivrin trying to do in chapter 6 but having a hard time with?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In chapter one, Mary Ahrens is watching the preparations for sending a historian named Kivrin to 1320. The policy has been not to send historians to the medieval period because of the danger to the historian. Discuss the following:
1. Speculate as to what types of danger there may be to someone time traveling back to medieval times.
2. Research the cultural milieu of England in the mid-14th century and then analyze to see if your speculations in part 1 are accurate. What else can you add to what you said in part 1?
3. After researching England of the mid-14th century, do you think it was wise of Gilchrist to approve Kivrin's travel to that era (even considering she was to arrive a good 20 years before this huge plague outbreak)? Explain your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Many readers of a book such as Doomsday Book place themselves in the position of someone like Kivrin, wondering about what their response would be in a similar situation. Discuss the following:
1. Do you think one of the values of literature is to serve as a reflection of oneself? Why or why not?
2. Socrates said "Know thyself." How can reading a book such as the Doomsday Book help a reader to know him/herself? Do you find yourself reflecting on your own character and abilities when reading Doomsday Book? Why or why not?
3. Choose one specific incident to discuss and compare Kivrin's response to how you think you would respond.
Essay Topic 3
While Kivrin is delirious, she believes Fr. Roche is administering last rites because she is going to be burned at the stake. Discuss the following:
1. Research and write an informative essay about why and how often women were burned at the stake in England in the 14th century.
2. Do you think the church administered last rites to a witch who was being burned at the stake? Why or why not? What religious or spiritual significance did the church attach to a person burning at the stake?
3. When and where was the last time it is recorded that a woman is burned at the stake for witchcraft? Did they burn women at the stake for witchcraft in the United States? Why do you think the practice is stopped where it was practiced?
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