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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What advice does Gudrun give her daughter that Joan will recall all her life?
(a) Never allow her sex to hold her down.
(b) Never fall in love.
(c) Never let a man raise a hand to her.
(d) Never depend on a man.

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

6. What happened to the servant Richild forced to walk beside the wagons in Chapter 9?
(a) She drowned out of exhaustion.
(b) She eventually was allowed back in the wagons.
(c) She rode on the back of Joan's horse.
(d) She fell and broke her neck.

7. By what name is Joan known?
(a) John of Ingleheim.
(b) John of Anglicus.
(c) Joan of Anglicus.
(d) Joan of Ingleheim.

8. What job is Gerold assigned to do while away from his family?
(a) Advisor to the emperor.
(b) General of the army.
(c) Bishop of a school.
(d) District judge or missus.

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

10. 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) Theordorus is murdered by the papal militia.
(c) The Lutheran Bishop is murdered by Christian soldiers.
(d) The Roman Emperor is murdered by Norsemen.

11. What does Gerold believe has happened to his daughter Gisla?
(a) She has been murdered.
(b) She has gone away with her new husband.
(c) She has been abducted by Vikings.
(d) She has died of the plague.

12. What does Richild intercept that tells her of Joan's plans?
(a) A letter to John.
(b) A letter to Gerold.
(c) A letter to her mother.
(d) A letter to her father.

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

14. What is the Roman Lateran Palace?
(a) The home of the Pope.
(b) The home of the Archbishop of Rome.
(c) The home of the Roman Emperor.
(d) The home of the Lutheran bishop.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Aesculapius fired from the schola?

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

3. Where has Joan been for the five years since her wedding?

4. What causes Joan to become ill in Chapter 6?

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

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