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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 Kivrin make Fr. Roche do as he comes to give the clerk last rites?
2. What has happened to Beverly Breen?
3. How can Kivrin and Fr. Roche afford to travel?
4. What is Dunworthy horrified about?
5. What does Gilchrist say to Dunworthy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What about the virus situation in modern times concerns Dunworthy?
2. What does Kivrin say about the rest of the family?
3. What happens as Kivrin prepares to travel to Scotland with Fr. Roche and Rosemund?
4. What note does the young boy bring from the bishop and why does Kirvin already know its contents?
5. What does Kivrin write about the church bells and cemetery?
6. What does Kivrin write in her Doomsday Book about various victims?
7. What does Kivrin note about the Bishop's envoy?
8. What happens to the envoy and what does Kirvin realize as a result?
9. What does Andrew say when Dunworthy asks him to come work the lab machines? What does it not matter?
10. What does Kivrin talk about with Rosemund and what is her response?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
In order to set up the plot, the writer has to introduce two implausible events. Discuss the following:
1. Research and define the term "narrative contrivance" and give several examples of it from other books and movies you have read.
2. Analyze the two events that seem a bit too coincidental or farfetched that sets the rest of the story in motion. Consider that Montoya has unearthed some sort of virus from the excavation that is still viable and the fact that Badri is the first one to exhibit symptoms of the virus and that he does not communicate immediately while walking with Dunworthy back to the lab that Kivrin is in 1348. Is there any way theses "contrivances" could be left out and the plot move forward in much the same way that it does? What other ways are there to have gotten the same results?
3. Is much fiction in some ways a contrivance? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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