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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Richild force a servant to walk along side the wagons?
(a) Because of a tasteless joke about the daughter of Richild's wedding night.
(b) Because the servant refused to help load the wagons.
(c) Because she was angry at Joan for riding a horse, but could not punish Joan.
(d) Because the servant refused to sit with the luggage.

2. Who does Richild tell Joan is behind the arranged marriage?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Gerold.
(d) The Bishop.

3. Why was Joan's mother considered a heathen by her father?
(a) Because she was unfaithful.
(b) Because she refused to attend church.
(c) Because she taught her daughter to read.
(d) Because she once worshipped false gods.

4. What threat does Richild use to convince the Bishop to go along with the wedding?
(a) To expose his affair with Joan.
(b) To expose his illigitimate children.
(c) To expose his paramours to the church council.
(d) To expose his inability to read Latin.

5. With whom is Joan to live while attending the school?
(a) Count Gerold of Villaris.
(b) The Canon of Ingleheim.
(c) Odo, the school teacher.
(d) The Bishop at his Palace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of questions is Joan advised not to ask in Chapter 9?

2. Who is Richild?

3. What happened to destroy the small village where Gudrun grew up?

4. What situation did Joan's continued success in her education depend upon?

5. What does Joan's father do when he sees her reading the book Aesculapius gave Joan?

(see the answer key)

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