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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. What does a fortune teller tell Joan in Chapter 9?

2. What happened to the servant Richild forced to walk beside the wagons in Chapter 9?

3. How will Joan's marriage affect John's status at Dorstadt?

4. What subjects did Joan strive to learn?

5. What threat does Richild use to convince the Bishop to go along with the wedding?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Richild convince the Bishop to back Joan's marriage?

3. What does John steal from his father? For what reason?

4. Why will the leaders at the monastery not allow Brother Gottschalk to leave?

5. How does Gudrun, Joan's mother, feel about the things Aesculapius is teaching her daughter?

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

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

8. What person comes to visit the Canon of Ingleheim and what does he try to teach him about logic?

9. What event causes Joan to defy the church's policy against women and makes her happy to be living as a man?

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

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 one of the following parts of the setting in detail, citing examples from the novel:

1. Time period in which the novel takes place

2. The religious influence and power associated with the plot

3. The political influence and power associated with the plot.

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