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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. How do and Gerold Joan finally find a moment of intimacy after all these years?
(a) They are placed in isolation while suffering the plague.
(b) They are forced into a room after a tidal wave.
(c) They are washed onto a deserted island by a tsunami wave.
(d) They are lost in the rubble of a fallen building.

2. What illness befalls the Pope in Chapter 19?
(a) Leprosy.
(b) A great pain caused by excess food and drink.
(c) The plague.
(d) Cancer.

3. What position in the church does Anastasius hope to one day achieve?
(a) Cardinal.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Pope.
(d) Papal Librarian.

4. On whose side does Gerold choose to fight?
(a) Anastasius.
(b) Ludwig.
(c) Lothar.
(d) Charles.

5. What warning does a messenger bring the Pope on the Day of Ascension?
(a) That Lothar is coming.
(b) That Joan has escaped and will seek revenge.
(c) That the Saracens are coming.
(d) That the Emperor will be appointing a new Pope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the missus accuse Joan of?

2. Who is traveling with Lothar's army?

3. What conclusion does Joan reach when she comes to treat the Pope's illness in Chapter 20?

4. Who disapproves of the new Pope's progressive thinking?

5. What punishment does Benedict receive for his crime?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joan encourage Pope Sergius to do that makes Benedict unhappy?

2. What warning does Joan give Pope Sergius in the face of the Saracen attack that he does not heed?

3. Why does Benedict abandon his brother and leave Rome?

4. How does Pope Leo die? Who is elected to take his place?

5. Who starts the fire that burns the new wall Pope Leo is building and destroys several other buildings, including the school? Why?

6. What does Joan implement in order to help slow the spread of the plague during Church services?

7. Who begins to plot against Pope Joan because of her ideas?

8. What truth does Joan learn when she sees Gerold again? How does Joan react to Gerold's request to run away?

9. Why is Joan arrested? What is her punishment?

10. Who does Gerold support in the battle between the dead Emperor's three sons?

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