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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What punishment does Gottschalk receive for his desires regarding his stay at the monastery?
(a) A week of bread and water.
(b) A lashing that is so severe his ribs poke through his wounds.
(c) A month of silence.
(d) A bed of needles.

3. What does Joan discover when she applies logic to Hrotrud's trial?
(a) It could have been handled faster.
(b) Hrotrud was innocent.
(c) Hrotrud was guilty.
(d) It could have been handled differently.

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

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

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

7. Why is it an insult to her mother for Joan to be tutored by a Catholic teacher?
(a) Because her mother has taught her about Saxon gods, considered pagan by Catholics.
(b) Because her mother is uneducated and does not understand what Joan has learned.
(c) Because her mother was not consulted before Joan began her studies.
(d) Because her mother should be her primary tutor.

8. What changes to her body does Joan not like?
(a) Joan dislikes the new curves at her waist and hips.
(b) Joan dislikes that she has no breasts.
(c) Joan dislikes that the boys find her asexual.
(d) Joan dislikes the growth of her breasts.

9. How does Odo's behavior with Joan change, causing tensions in Chapter 9?
(a) Odo begins to physically abuse Joan.
(b) Odo begins to allow the other students to physically abuse Joan.
(c) Odo begins to force himself sexually on Joan.
(d) Odo begins to ignore Joan, even when she has the correct answers to his questions.

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

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

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

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

14. 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 decides her father is too ignorant to explain the concepts in her gift from Aesculapius to her father.
(d) Joan refuses to read her gift from Aesculapius to her father.

15. What does Joan show to her father in order to inspire him to allow her to take up Matthew's studies?
(a) That she can read.
(b) That she is smarter than John.
(c) That she can draw better than John.
(d) That she can write.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Aesculapius fired from the schola?

2. Who finds a passage in the law books that results in the church council overruling the abbot?

3. Who comes to visit John of Anglicus at Fulda?

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

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

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