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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 practice does Joan institute in the churches of Fulda that causes her to be punished for disobedience?

2. What does Joan do to treat the Pope's illness in Chapter 20?

3. What law does Anastasius invoke at Gerold's trial in Chapter 29?

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

5. Who takes over some of the Pope's charitable projects, leading to the nickname Little Pope?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What miracle does Joan create in order to stop the fighting between Pope Sergius and Lothar?

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

4. Why is Cardinal Leo elected Pope over Anastasius?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who is working behind the new Pope, Pope Sergius, in order to increase his own power?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Joan's attempts to heal and prevent spread of disease during her time at the monastery. How does Joan heal a woman thought to have leprosy? What is the woman's true illness? How does Joan heal this illness? What reaction does Joan get from the other monks when the woman is healed? How does Joan attempt to slow the progression of the plague during mass? Does this stop the spread? Do other priests adopt this same practice? How do church officials reward Joan for these actions?

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 these characters' relationships to one another and the impact of these relationships on other characters and the development of the plot. Use theme, symbolism, and metaphor in your discussion. Cite examples from the novel.

1. Joan and John

2. The Canon of Ingleheim and Gudrun

3. Matthew and Joan.

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