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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. Where does Will Wilson decide to move?

2. How old is Jane at the opening of the chapter?

3. What Catholic becomes the English monarch?

4. Where does Edward travel to find an agent?

5. Where does Patricia meet the American pilot?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Godefroi go about trying to improve his family's financial situation?

2. Who is Bloody Mary, and how did she earn her name?

3. How is the Shockley family affected by the political crisis?

4. What must Jane do before she can accomplish her goal to serve as a nurse?

5. What is the most noticeable event happening in "The Encampment"?

6. What enables Jane, unlike many women of the time, to avoid marriage and work toward her goals?

7. Even though she is neutral in the matter of king versus Parliament, how does Margaret come to lead a defense force?

8. What path does Adam take to become a soldier?

9. Why does a visit from Canon Nicodemus result in Ralph staying at the doctor's house?

10. How did Peter Wilson go from being a smuggler to a sailor in the British Navy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the narrator's use of language in the novel Sarum. Is the language elevated to the poetic or is it the everyday language of people of Sarum in their various times in history? Do you find it equally easy to understand characters' language regardless of their time in history?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the setting of the novel Sarum both in terms of geography and moment in history. How crucial is the setting to the story? Could the story presented by the novel have taken place at any other location or time?

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