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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joan show to her father in order to inspire him to allow her to take up Matthew's studies?
(a) That she is smarter than John.
(b) That she can draw better than John.
(c) That she can write.
(d) That she can read.

2. What happens to John and the emissary as they walk in the woods in Chapter 6?
(a) They decide to run away.
(b) They attack an unarmed group of travelers.
(c) They are attacked by Norsemen.
(d) They are attacked by a brigand.

3. What advice does Gudrun give her daughter that Joan will recall all her life?
(a) Never fall in love.
(b) Never depend on a man.
(c) Never allow her sex to hold her down.
(d) Never let a man raise a hand to her.

4. Of what does Matthew die?
(a) A wagon accident.
(b) An illness.
(c) An infection.
(d) A sword wound.

5. Why is Joan beaten unconscious by her father at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Joan refuses to allow her father to burn her gift from Aesculapius.
(b) Joan refuses to read her gift from Aesculapius to her father.
(c) Joan refuses to scrape the words from the pages of her gift from Aesculapius.
(d) Joan decides her father is too ignorant to explain the concepts in her gift from Aesculapius to her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Hrotrud, the midwife, been put on trial?

2. Who was Joan's tutor when she was a child?

3. To what office is Joan eventually elected?

4. What stipulation does Joan's father place on the Greek tutor before allowing him to teach Joan?

5. Who finds the survivor?

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