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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. Who is to lead the force to defend Sarum?

2. Whom does Alicia marry?

3. What does the king tax to finance his wars?

4. Why is Caius Porteus ordered to destroy a village?

5. What sort of business has made Edward Shockley prosperous?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the source of the disagreement between Petrus and his father early in the chapter?

2. What connection does the carved figure Nooma finds have to the past?

3. Why must the King of France settle a dispute in England?

4. Why does Dluc tell Krona that they must sacrifice Krona's firstborn?

5. What connection do rats and fleas have to the Black Death?

6. Why is Godric hanged even after his uncle pays a bribe?

7. What religious secret does Petrus conceal?

8. How does the practice of tomb building begin in the region of Stonehenge?

9. Why does Petrus's father have Petrus imprisoned?

10. Why does the marriage between Porteus and Tosutigus's daughter fail?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the author Edward Rutherfurd, and what are some of his other notable works?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the point of view in the novel Sarum. Does the story come from a single narrator or multiple narrators? Does the point of view remain the same throughout the novel, or does it change, and what effect does this have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

In the course of the novel various female characters represent the role of women in their respective times. Some of these characters are assertive individuals at a time when that was uncommon for women. Which female characters demonstrated unusual freedom?

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