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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 refuses last rites from Roche?
2. What day is it at the opening of Chapter 17?
3. What does Badri say he should have done when he realized the date was wrong for Kivrin's jump?
4. What does Dunworthy realize is as Badri is talking?
5. What does Dunworthy do after seeing the state of the lab?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the scene where Kivrin goes to mass with the family and her talk with Gawyn on the way home.
2. What does Kivrin write about the church bells and cemetery?
3. Why does Father Roche return to where the clerk lies and what does Kirvin ask of him?
4. What does Dunworthy learn about various flu victims after he regains consciousness?
5. How does Dunworthy get into the lab and what does he discover when he goes inside?
6. What does Kivrin write in her Doomsday Book about various victims?
7. What does Kivrin note about the Bishop's envoy?
8. What note does the young boy bring from the bishop and why does Kirvin already know its contents?
9. Describe Mary Ahrens.
10. Why does Kivrin take Agnes to Father Roche and what is the outcome?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Whenever reading a science fiction or fantasy novel, one must become familiar with new terminology that explains concepts or technology that is not a part of the "real" world. In the case of Doomsday Book, much of the setting is familiar to the reader, though there are new ideas and terms to learn. Discuss the following:
1. Find five terms that are a part of the 2054 world of Dunworthy and Kivrin that are either not a part of the language of 2010 or mean something different. Define the words as used in 2054 and compare those five words as to how they are currently used in the American English language.
2. How does the language of 1348 differ from that of 2010? Are there words you did not know from that time? What? How do you learn their meanings?
3. There are ways of learning about a new world or time when reading a science fiction or fantasy novel. Discuss the ways you were able to understand the time of both 2054 and 1348. Did you have to look up any words? What does it mean to learn a word through its context? Do you have to do that in Doomsday Book? What word(s)?
4. Were there any words you never really understand from Doomsday Book? What are they?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Oftentimes, a book is more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:
1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character-driven or action-driven?
2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character-driven versus action-driven?
3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?
4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not?
5. What type of plot do you think the Doomsday Book is? Explain your response.
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