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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What threat does Richild use to convince the Bishop to go along with the wedding?
(a) To expose his affair with Joan.
(b) To expose his paramours to the church council.
(c) To expose his inability to read Latin.
(d) To expose his illigitimate children.

4. Who does Joan begin to teach and arranges to send to the abbey school?
(a) John, her brother.
(b) Gisla, Gerold's daughter.
(c) Arn, the son of the woman Joan cured.
(d) Matthew, her brother.

5. 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 write.
(d) That she can draw better than John.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richild say about Joan's relationship with Gerold?

2. What does Joan's father do when he sees her reading the book Aesculapius gave Joan?

3. What decision has Brother Gottschalk made in regards to his stay at the monastery?

4. What does Aesculapius promise Joan when he leaves?

5. What happens to John and the emissary as they walk in the woods in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Aesculapius want to take on as a student?

2. Where did Joan go after the massacre at the church?

3. What advice does Gudrun give to Joan that Joan will remember the rest of her life?

4. Where does Gerold believe Joan is after he fails to find her body among those murdered at the church?

5. From what background are Joan's parents and why do these backgrounds not mix?

6. Who is Pope when Anastasius is a young child?

7. How does Joan survive? How does she plan to continue to survive?

8. Why does Joan insist on helping cure a woman who has been diagnosed with leprosy?

9. Whose death leads Joan to discover that logic applied to religion makes sense? Why?

10. What does Anastasius witness as he waits to visit his Uncle Theodorus?

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