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

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

3. Who disapproves of the new Pope's progressive thinking?
(a) The optimates and high clergy.
(b) The Emperor.
(c) The people.
(d) Arsenius.

4. About what people is Anastasius writing a book dealing with their history?
(a) The Catholics.
(b) The Prostestants.
(c) The Saxons.
(d) The Popes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Joan overhear Anastasius pledge loyalty?

2. What penance does Joan offer the Pope after he confesses his sins?

3. What punishment does the Pope give the person accused of starting the fire?

4. What accomplice to the poisoners is found dead in the river?

5. What practice that Joan was previously punished for incorporating into church services is widely incorporated now?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Pope Leo excommunicate Anastasius?

3. What project does Joan immediately give to Gerold to oversee as she becomes Pope?

4. Why is Cardinal Leo elected Pope over Anastasius?

5. What causes Joan's death?

6. Who is referred to as 'Little Pope' under Pope Leo? Why?

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

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

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

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

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