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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the school where Godric finally learns his letters?
(a) Saint Michael.
(b) Saint Christopher.
(c) Saint Mary-le-Bow.
(d) Saint Thomas Aquinas.

2. What sort of brigands accost Godric and his friends on the way back from Christmas mass in Durham?
(a) Fur trading.
(b) Scottish.
(c) Pirate.
(d) Spanish.

3. What does Hedwic complain about when she starts her conversation with Godric at the feast?
(a) The floor.
(b) The candles.
(c) The temperature.
(d) The weather.

4. Godric feels that he fails Christ as a _____.
(a) Father.
(b) Friend.
(c) Son.
(d) Prophet.

5. Which field is thick with corpses from fighting between the Frankish knights and the Turks?
(a) Konya.
(b) Ramleh.
(c) Bursa.
(d) Adana,

Short Answer Questions

1. By the reckoning of men, one half of Godric's life is an _____.

2. Working for Falkes de Granvill, Godric feels that he is working his own _____.

3. Whose bones have supposedly been carted to Durham?

4. Who does Goric ask to teach him how to pray?

5. When Godric gives his gold away, who does he say was as glad as he was to do so when he told Jesus that he would pay back double for his thievery?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Godric describe the Wear River and what is its significance to him?

2. How is Elric, in all his rantings and his hermit lifestyle, treated by the community that surrounds where he lives?

3. What happened fifty years before when Ranulf Flambard brought Cuthbert's bones to Durham?

4. How does Godric's family find out where he is living when their house burns down?

5. What impression does King Baldwin have on Godric and Roger Mouse when they first meet him?

6. What happens to Godric as he passes through the Durham gate on his way to Bishop Pudsey's Christmas mass?

7. How does Perkin help Godric select his tomb?

8. Describe the apparition that Godric sees when he prays to the Mother Mary.

9. What does Reginald say of Godric's newly-acquired ability to read and write?

10. What happens to Godric at the River Jordan and how does he compare it to the River Wear?

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