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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. Why do the bells stop tolling?

2. What do some of the plague victims have?

3. What does Kivrin accidentally let slip?

4. What is going on non-stop?

5. What does Dunworthy realize as he wakes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dunworthy realize when talking to Badri?

2. What does Kivrin write in her Doomsday Book about various victims?

3. What happens as Kivrin prepares to travel to Scotland with Fr. Roche and Rosemund?

4. How does Dunworthy get into the lab and what does he discover when he goes inside?

5. What note does the young boy bring from the bishop and why does Kirvin already know its contents?

6. Who is the next victim to fall ill and how does Kirvin discover it?

7. Why does Father Roche return to where the clerk lies and what does Kirvin ask of him?

8. Describe the discussion between Badri and Dunworthy about Kirvin's time travel.

9. What does Dunworthy learn about various flu victims after he regains consciousness?

10. What does Kivrin first do upon realizing the date and what is wrong with the clerk?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kivrin learns that the twelve year old Rosmund has been betrothed to an older man, Sir Bloet and is soon to marry. Discuss the following:

1. What are Kivrin's reactions to the news about Rosemund's upcoming marriage? Are her reactions typical for the time in which she is visiting? Why or why not?

2. Why do you think Rosemund accepts the idea of marrying a man so much older than she is? Do you think at her age she even understands what marriage means in the sexual sense?

Essay Topic 2

Dunworthy's mind is constantly on Kivrin, and he continues to reassure himself that she's capable of handling whatever situation arises. He recalls his own test trip through the net to a period just thirty years in the past from that time. There'd been a young man there who pulled offered directions to reach the destination, which he'd got to with time to spare. Dunworthy tells himself that there are young men with a map and a piece of advice in every time period. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think based upon Dunworthy's own first time travel experience which is only 30 years in the past, that Dunworthy is logical in thinking that there will be someone in 1348 to help Kivrin get to where she needs to be?

2. If one assumes that Gawyn is Kivrin's "young man," analyze how helpful he in helping Kivrin find her pick up site. Cite specific examples.

3. Is Dunworthy correct in his reasoning about Kivrin? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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