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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Aesculapius fired from the schola?
(a) For inappropriate behavior with students.
(b) For breaking a vow of celibacy.
(c) For teaching a female student.
(d) For his beliefs.

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

3. What does Aesculapius promise Joan when he leaves?
(a) He will arrange for her to go to him.
(b) He will arrange for her to enter a better school.
(c) He will send another teacher to her.
(d) He will return for her.

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

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

6. 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 decides her father is too ignorant to explain the concepts in her gift from Aesculapius to her father.
(c) Joan refuses to read her gift from Aesculapius to her father.
(d) Joan refuses to scrape the words from the pages of her gift from Aesculapius.

7. For what reason does the Abbot refuse Brother Gottschalk's request?
(a) The monastery has too many monks.
(b) The monastery cannot afford Gottschalk's travel to and from his family home.
(c) His father gave Gottschalk to the monastery, taking the decision from Gottschalk.
(d) The monastery has too many civilian servants already.

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

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

10. What happened to destroy the small village where Gudrun grew up?
(a) A battle for the Emperor's throne.
(b) The plague.
(c) A natural storm destroyed it.
(d) Christian soldiers attacked.

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

12. Why does Gudrun tell her daughter that she went with the Christian missionaries, a group that included her current husband?
(a) She was starving.
(b) They kidnapped her.
(c) She wanted to convert to Christianity.
(d) She fell in love.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a fortune teller tell Joan in Chapter 9?

2. Who sees Joan in an embrace with a married man at the end of Chapter 9?

3. What does John steal from his father in Chapter 6?

4. For whom does Judith, wife of Viscount Waifar, come to the church to pray?

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

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