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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name is Joan known?

2. What does Gerold believe has happened to his daughter Gisla?

3. What does Gerold find when he goes to the chapel in Villairis?

4. How does Joan cure a leper?

5. In what year is Joan of Ingleheim born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Joan treated at school? Why?

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

3. Who arranges a marriage for Joan? Who does Joan believe is behind this arranged marriage?

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

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

6. With whom does Joan get into a discussion regarding the inferiority of females?

7. What does Joan notice at the home of the Bishop that she finds unusual?

8. How does Joan manage to go with John to attend school at Dorstadt?

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

10. Who catches Gerold and Joan in an embrace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the men in Joan's family. Who was Joan's father? Why does he feel women are inferior to men? How does this belief affect the relationship between Joan and her father? Discuss Matthew. How does Matthew seek to help Joan educate herself? How does this affect their relationship? What gift does Matthew give to Joan? Why is Joan blamed for Matthew's death? Who is John? What is his relationship like with Joan? What causes the tension in this relationship? What does John want to be as an adult? Why? Why will John never achieve his dream?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Joan's childhood, paying special attention to the things that affected her choices in young adulthood. Who is Joan? Who was her father? Who was her mother? What was the relationship like between Joan's parents? What impact did this relationship have Joan's emotional growth as a child? How did Joan's father treat her? Why? How was Joan's relationship with her mother? What was unusual about this relationship?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following objects and their significance to the characters and plot development within the novel:

1. The hydraulic machine

2. St. Catherine medal

3. Joan's book by Homer.

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