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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What subject does Joan attempt to challenge her tester on in Chapter 7-8?
(a) The existence of Jesus.
(b) The inferiority of women.
(c) The reality of the crucifixion.
(d) The illogical punishments of the Church.

2. For what reason do Anastasius and his father go to the Roman Lateran Palace?
(a) To visit the Lutheran Bishop.
(b) To visit the landmarks of Rome.
(c) To visit Anastasius' Uncle Theordorus.
(d) To visit the Pope.

3. What does a farrier do?
(a) Shoes horses.
(b) Raises minks.
(c) Makes fur coats.
(d) Milks cows.

4. Why does Richild force a servant to walk along side the wagons?
(a) Because the servant refused to help load the wagons.
(b) Because of a tasteless joke about the daughter of Richild's wedding night.
(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.

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

6. Why was Joan's role in history taken from the history books?
(a) Because she is female.
(b) Because she was not worth remembering.
(c) Because she was a cruel leader.
(d) Because she committed heinous crimes.

7. What decision does Gerold make as he makes the journey home?
(a) That he wants Joan to marry the farrier's son.
(b) That he wants to have another child.
(c) That he wants to marry Joan.
(d) That he wants to renew his marriage vows with Richild.

8. Why does Gudrun support her husband's lie that the emissary should be looking for John, not Joan in chapter 6?
(a) Gudrun wants Joan to remain with her and learn her Saxon ways.
(b) Gudrun wants to punish Joan for angering her husband.
(c) Gudrun is threatened by her husband to support him.
(d) Gudrun no longer supports her daughter's desire to learn.

9. What situation did Joan's continued success in her education depend upon?
(a) Her ability to hide the truth of her education from her father.
(b) Her ability to hide the fact she was female.
(c) Her ability to heal lepers.
(d) Her ability to pay her tuition.

10. What decision has Brother Gottschalk made in regards to his stay at the monastery?
(a) Brother Gottschalk wants to devote his life to the monastery.
(b) Brother Gottschalk wants to be married, but remain at the monastery as a civilian servant.
(c) Brother Gottschalk wants to leave the monastery.
(d) Brother Gottschalk wants to visit his family for a year.

11. In Chapter 15, what do the monks gather to do?
(a) To celebrate Easter.
(b) To party.
(c) To recieve their promotions within the church.
(d) To confess their sins and the sins of others.

12. What is a leper?
(a) A person who suffers from the disease leprosy.
(b) A person who steals.
(c) A person who is unclean and unwanted.
(d) A person who spreads the plague.

13. For whom does Judith, wife of Viscount Waifar, come to the church to pray?
(a) Her stillborn daughter.
(b) Her dying mother.
(c) Her dead son.
(d) Her dead husband.

14. Who does Gerold kill on the docks in a rage?
(a) Odo.
(b) His assistant.
(c) Joan
(d) A Viking.

15. 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 scrape the words from the pages of her gift from Aesculapius.
(c) Joan refuses to read her gift from Aesculapius to her father.
(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 is Aesculapius fired from the schola?

2. What is Joan learning under the tutor of Brother Benjamin?

3. What does the Bishop thinks of Joan's arranged married?

4. Who does Joan meet who argues that logic does not threaten faith?

5. What does Gerold find when he returns home to Villairis?

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