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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. What disaster hits the Martius area that forces Gerold and Joan to go there in order to save the poor?
(a) Plague.
(b) Tsunami.
(c) Earthquake.
(d) Flood.

2. What penance does Joan offer the Pope after he confesses his sins?
(a) To avoid sweets.
(b) To avoid wine and tobacco.
(c) To avoid sex.
(d) To avoid wine and four-footed meat.

3. What is the cause of Joan's death?
(a) Miscarriage.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Plague.
(d) Murder.

4. What punishment does the Pope give the person accused of starting the fire?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Imprisonment in the dungeon.
(c) Exile.
(d) Excommunication.

5. Whose army arrives to save the people of Rome from the Saracens?
(a) Charles.
(b) Lothar.
(c) Gerold.
(d) Prince Siconulf.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To where does the fire spread, placing innocent lives in danger?

3. What item does Joan give to the daughter of her friend, Arn?

4. What nationality is the new Bishop the Pope has appointed that causes outrage from Magister Militum Daniel?

5. What misunderstanding do Gerold and Joan work out when they meet up again?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Gerold and Joan become stranded together in a boat?

3. Who arrests Benedict? What punishment does he suffer?

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

5. What causes Joan's death?

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

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

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

9. Why is Cardinal Leo elected Pope over Anastasius?

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

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