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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Merivel treat Pearce?
(a) With bedrest and herbal remedies.
(b) With hourly medicines and exercises.
(c) With an herbal wrap and steam.
(d) With bloodletting.

2. How successful is Merivel's first use of the plague cure?
(a) The woman he gives it to is on her deathbed, and she is cured.
(b) The woman he gives it to dies.
(c) The woman he gives it to gets sick but doesn't die.
(d) The woman he gives it to does not get sick after several weeks.

3. How does Merivel feel about his sexual affair with Katherine?
(a) Sad.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Ecstatic.

4. How does the King feel about Celia?
(a) He hates her and has her imprisoned.
(b) He loves her, but she has left him.
(c) He loves her and has abandoned his other lovers to be with her.
(d) He no longer cares for her and has sent her away.

5. What is unusual about Merivel's sexual encounter with Katherine?
(a) They roleplay that they're old.
(b) Merivel has difficulty performing.
(c) It has religious overtones.
(d) Katherine is perfectly still.

6. What happens when Merivel tries to catch up with Piepold's relatives?
(a) He is thrown off his horse.
(b) His horse gets a lame foot.
(c) His horse gets sick and refuses to move.
(d) His horse is too slow.

7. What is written on the gate?
(a) A note to Ambrose.
(b) A children's rhyme.
(c) A verse from the Bible.
(d) A note to Merivel.

8. What instigated Katherine's illness?
(a) Her sister being kidnapped.
(b) Her husband leaving her.
(c) Her child being killed.
(d) Her father dying.

9. Where does Merivel meet Finn, after not seeing him for a long time?
(a) In a park.
(b) At Whitehall.
(c) In a church.
(d) In a pub.

10. How does Merivel feel about Katherine?
(a) He lusts after her.
(b) He hates her.
(c) He loves her.
(d) He feels like a brother to her.

11. How does Pearce feel about Merivel being at the hospital?
(a) He thinks Merivel should stay a short while.
(b) He thinks Merivel belongs there.
(c) He thinks Merivel should leave.
(d) He thinks Merivel should never have come.

12. What medical practice does Merivel perform regularly at the hospital?
(a) Lobotomies.
(b) Maggot therapy.
(c) Bloodletting.
(d) Leeching.

13. How are the most insane patients kept?
(a) Chained to posts.
(b) Locked in a large room, free to interact.
(c) Tied to steel knobs in the wall.
(d) Locked in small individual rooms.

14. Why do the plague flagellants hit themselves?
(a) They think it will stop them from becoming sick.
(b) They want to feel their pain, not the pain of the city.
(c) They want to take the plague on themselves to cure others.
(d) The think it will cure the plague on the city by their sacrifice.

15. How does the King respond to Merivel's letter, asking to visit?
(a) The King invites him to a luncheon.
(b) The King invites him to a large ball.
(c) The King does not respond.
(d) The King invites him to Sunday dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose make Merivel do before passing through the gate?

2. Who does Merivel mistake for his mother?

3. What did the King think of the portrait Finn painted?

4. What does Merivel do most of the day while he is ill?

5. Who does Merivel see on the river one morning in 1666?

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