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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only way for Hrotrud to prove her innocence?
(a) To quit delivering babies.
(b) To drown.
(c) To swim.
(d) To confess.

2. Who was Joan's tutor when she was a child?
(a) Aesculapius.
(b) Richild.
(c) Gerold.
(d) Anastasius.

3. 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 inability to read Latin.
(c) To expose his illigitimate children.
(d) To expose his paramours to the church council.

4. What happens when Joan and her companions arrive at the Bishop's palace?
(a) They are jailed for bad behavior on the trip.
(b) They are interviewed and invited to dinner.
(c) They are bathed and invited to dinner.
(d) They are immediately placed in the school dorms.

5. What does Gerold find when he goes to the chapel in Villairis?
(a) Richild marrying another man.
(b) Joan marrying another man.
(c) His family and friends all masacred.
(d) John being baptized before going to monastery.

6. Where does Joan travel to with Count Gerold and his family in Chapter 9?
(a) A family wedding in Rome.
(b) A church service in Ingleheim.
(c) A funeral in Venice.
(d) A fair in St. Denis.

7. What does Gerold buy for Joan during their trip in Chapter 9?
(a) Blueprints to a hydraulic device.
(b) Cotton candy.
(c) Blueprints to a motorized wagon.
(d) A new dress.

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

9. Why is Judith, wife of Viscount Waifar, turned away from the church even though she has waited the normal thirty days?
(a) She has committed a crime.
(b) She has no money to pay a donation.
(c) She is considered unclean.
(d) She refuses to bow to the male churchgoers.

10. What type of questions is Joan advised not to ask in Chapter 9?
(a) Questions about Richild's behaviors.
(b) Questions about the life of Jesus.
(c) Questions about the Bishop and his lover.
(d) Heretical questions that question the basic tenents of their faith.

11. Why has Hrotrud, the midwife, been put on trial?
(a) Hrotrud is accused of worshipping false gods.
(b) Hrotrud is accused of infidelity.
(c) Hrotrud is accused of heresy.
(d) Hrotrud is accused of socery.

12. Who sees Joan in an embrace with a married man at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) Gerold.
(b) The Bishop.
(c) Odo.
(d) Richild.

13. What does Joan's father do when he sees her reading the book Aesculapius gave Joan?
(a) He burns it.
(b) He orders her to scrape the words from the pages.
(c) He asks her to explain the main concepts to him.
(d) He asks her to read it to him.

14. Why does Richild arrange a marriage for Joan?
(a) She believes Joan needs more structure in her life.
(b) To get her away from the other children in the school.
(c) Because she believes Joan is in love with her future husband.
(d) To get her away from Gerold.

15. From where is the emissary who comes in Chapter 6, looking for Joan?
(a) The Pope's residence in Rome.
(b) The monastery in Fulda.
(c) The Emperor's residence.
(d) A school in Dorstadt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attacks the church during Joan's wedding?

2. Why are lepers separated from the general population?

3. Why does Richild force a servant to walk along side the wagons?

4. What does Joan discover when she applies logic to Hrotrud's trial?

5. Why is it an insult to her mother for Joan to be tutored by a Catholic teacher?

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