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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. Who is Richild?
(a) Gerold's mother.
(b) Gerold's cousin.
(c) Gerold's cold wife.
(d) Gerold's daughter.

6. For what reason does their father blame two people for the death of Matthew?
(a) They exposed him to an illness.
(b) They caused the sword wound that killed him.
(c) They brought sin into the family.
(d) They caused the wagon accident that killed him.

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

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

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 no money to pay a donation.
(b) She has committed a crime.
(c) She refuses to bow to the male churchgoers.
(d) She is considered unclean.

10. What does Gerold find when he returns home to Villairis?
(a) Everything is normal.
(b) His wife is out of town.
(c) The village has been attacked, but everyone is fine.
(d) The village burned to ashes.

11. What subjects did Joan strive to learn?
(a) Medicine and logic.
(b) Homeopathy and paganism.
(c) Religion and medicine.
(d) Religion and philosophy.

12. Who often comes to Joan's rescue when the other students torment her?
(a) John.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Gerold.
(d) Odo.

13. What happens during Anastasius' visit to the Roman Lateran Palace that he is forced to watch?
(a) The Pope is murdered by his own advisers.
(b) The Roman Emperor is murdered by Norsemen.
(c) Theordorus is murdered by the papal militia.
(d) The Lutheran Bishop is murdered by Christian soldiers.

14. What does the Bishop thinks of Joan's arranged married?
(a) He believes they should wait for Gerold's return.
(b) He does not want to see his star pupil leave.
(c) He believes permission should be granted by Joan's parents.
(d) He believes Joan should marry someone else.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gudrun support her husband's lie that the emissary should be looking for John, not Joan in chapter 6?

2. Why are lepers separated from the general population?

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

4. What is the name of the school Joan would eventually attend?

5. Who cares for Joan through her illness in Chapter 6?

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