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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 Gawyn plan to do?

2. What is Dunworthy entering at the opening of the novel?

3. What is the priest doing with Kivrin?

4. What is the priest speaking who is with Kivrin?

5. With what does Dunworthy begin dealing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the problems of quarantine with which Dunworthy has to handle?

2. What does a medic question Dunworthy about concerning the virus and what is his response?

3. Why is Kivrin having trouble understanding the people in the house and how does the situation improve?

4. Why does Badri come to find Dunworthy and where does Badri and Dunworthy go?

5. Where does Dunworthy go after he's medically cleared, and what does he learn?

6. What does Badri keep saying and where does Dunworthy take him?

7. What does Kivrin see when she wakes up and what does she think about it?

8. Why is Dunworthy out trying to find an open store?

9. What does Kivrin do to ensure she can find her pick up spot again and what is her first entry in her Doomsday Book?

10. What does Kivrin write in her Doomsday Book in Chapter 14?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In chapter 8, Dunworthy tries explaining to Gilchrist the "rules" of the net. Discuss the following:

1. Why is it impossible for the virus in the epidemic at Oxford in 2054 to have come through the net? Does the explanation seem to follow natural laws as we understand them in 2010?

2. Why can't Dunworthy just go back before the drop time and then retrieve Kivrin as she comes through?

3. Explain how slippage determines how far off one is when traveling back in time. Does the four-hour slippage that was a part of Kivrin's drop account for the twenty year difference between when she wanted to be dropped and when she actually is dropped? Why or why not.

4. Does the technology of the net and time travel seem stable enough that you would travel on it? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Kivrin is found and taken to be nursed at the home of an upper class family. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it says about the times and people that complete strangers are willing to take in a sick woman and care for her for days? Do you think they have any motives other than kindness? What would they be?

2. Kivrin seems to find a niche caring for the two daughters of Eliwys and seems to "join" the household. How likely is it that this sort of thing would happen in modern times? What do you think has changed from previous centuries that it is unlikely to happen in the 21st century America. Do you think it is a indication of a lack of compassion by "modern" humans? Or what?

3. Kivrin discovers her dress if finer and she is cleaner than anyone during this time. Does the family notice this fact? Does Kivrin attempt to blend in better by not bathing? Do you think even the highest nobles of the land (Kings, queens, dukes, etc...) were much cleaner than the family who takes Kivrin in? Why or why not.

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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