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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who survives the attack in the woods and how?
(a) John, by using one of his father's sermons to talk the attackers down.
(b) The emissary by using a sword.
(c) The emissary, due to his connection to the Bishop.
(d) John, by using his father's knife.

2. Of what culture was Joan's mother?
(a) Welsh.
(b) British.
(c) Saxon.
(d) French.

3. Who finds a passage in the law books that results in the church council overruling the abbot?
(a) Gerold of Villiaris.
(b) John of Anglicus.
(c) Joan of Ingleheim.
(d) Brother Benjamin.

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

5. How does Joan cure a leper?
(a) The woman had a simple skin infection, not leprosy.
(b) She has learned magic through her tutor.
(c) She has special powers bestowed on her by God.
(d) The woman had a mild case.

6. What type of books does Gerold begin giving Joan?
(a) Books that address issues outside of religion.
(b) Books on cooking and female ettiquette.
(c) Books on philosophy.
(d) Religious books.

7. Which one person knew Joan's true self?
(a) Gerold.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) John of Anglicus.

8. Why does Gudrun tell her daughter that she went with the Christian missionaries, a group that included her current husband?
(a) They kidnapped her.
(b) She wanted to convert to Christianity.
(c) She fell in love.
(d) She was starving.

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

10. What is the name of the school Joan would eventually attend?
(a) Dorstadt.
(b) Fulda.
(c) Gudrun.
(d) Villiards.

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

12. In Chapter 15, who offers punishment to the monks at Fulda?
(a) Abbot Raban.
(b) Canon of Ingleheim.
(c) Gerold.
(d) John of Anglicus.

13. What is Joan learning under the tutor of Brother Benjamin?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Logic.
(c) History.
(d) Religion.

14. For what reason does the Abbot refuse Brother Gottschalk's request?
(a) The monastery has too many civilian servants already.
(b) The monastery cannot afford Gottschalk's travel to and from his family home.
(c) His father gave Gottschalk to the monastery, taking the decision from Gottschalk.
(d) The monastery has too many monks.

15. What title did Joan's father hold?
(a) Cardinal of Ingleheim.
(b) Priest of Ingleheim.
(c) Canon of Ingleheim.
(d) Bishop of Ingleheim.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. For what reason do Anastasius and his father go to the Roman Lateran Palace?

4. With whom does Joan fancy herself in love at the young age of thirteen?

5. In what year is Joan of Ingleheim born?

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