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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. For whom does Judith, wife of Viscount Waifar, come to the church to pray?

2. What happens to John and the emissary as they walk in the woods in Chapter 6?

3. Who does Joan meet who argues that logic does not threaten faith?

4. What type of books does Gerold begin giving Joan?

5. Why does Gudrun support her husband's lie that the emissary should be looking for John, not Joan in chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Joan treated at school? Why?

2. Who is the only person who knows Joan is a woman and how did he come to know this?

3. Who catches Gerold and Joan in an embrace?

4. What does Anastasius witness as he waits to visit his Uncle Theodorus?

5. Who is blamed for Matthew's death? Why?

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

7. How does Joan make it possible for Gottschalk to leave the monastery?

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

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

10. What happens to all who come to attend Joan's wedding, including her brother John?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss Joan's argument with Odo in regards to the inferiority of women. Why does Joan enter into this argument? What does Joan hope to prove with her argument? Why does Odo argue with Joan? What is his attitude toward Joan? How does Joan win this argument? What does this say about Joan's intelligence? How does this argument set the tone for Joan's stay at the school? Does this argument make Odo an enemy for Joan?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Joan cut her hair and take her brother's cloak after the massacre on her wedding day? Where does Joan go? Why? What education does Joan receive in this new place? How does this situation place Joan in trouble? What might happen if Joan were discovered? Who eventually does discover the truth? What does this person do? Who else knows the truth about Joan? Why does no one ever learn the truth about Joan? How likely is it that a woman could live in this way for so many years and deceive so many people? How does the author explain this deceit to the reader?

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