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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. Who is able to understand Kivrin?

2. What does Finch tell Dunworthy about the closet tech to Oxford?

3. What does Kivrin watch Eliwys doing?

4. What does Dunworthy try to learn from Badri?

5. What happens with Badri, Dunworth and Mary return to the lab?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Kivrin trying to do in chapter 6 but having a hard time with?

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

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

5. What is Ms. Montoya doing as Kivrin is preparing for her trip, and how is this related to Kivrin?

6. How does Colin explain his presence in the quarantine line?

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

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

9. What are Dunworthy and the others told when they are released from the hospital?

10. Describe Badri.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of manipulation and power in Doomsday Book. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with manipulation and power? Why? What are some symbols of manipulation and power? Symbols of powerlessness? What characters seem powerless?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of hypocrisy in Doomsday Book. Which characters seem hypocritical? Why? Which characters seem sincere? Why? Which ones seem not to care about looking good to others? What is the difference between how the two types live?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of death. Compare/contrast how the people of 1348 view death to the views of those in 2054. Which is most like your own view of death? Who seems afraid of dying? Not afraid? Who meets death gracefully? In resignation? With joy? With fear?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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