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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. As which of the following does Jack describe Beatryce as a monk in Chapter Twenty-five?

2. In Chapter Thirty-four, which of the following words does Beatryce use to explain the letter C?

3. Which of the following is illustrated at Chapter Twenty-nine?

4. Chapter Thirty begins with which of the following?

5. Which of the following does Beatryce note as her father’s cause of death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What becomes of Cannoc’s crown?

2. What does Jack recognize as a sign of his desire to learn to read at the beginning of Chapter Thirty-four?

3. Why does Edik weep when the king’s soldiers question him at the monastery?

4. In Chapter Twenty-five, what justification does Jack give for lying to Cannoc?

5. What justification does Cannoc give for the fearfulness of the monks?

6. At the beginning of Chapter Twenty-four, Beatryce recalls a man’s story; what is it?

7. What does Edik see as he kneels before the man with the knife in Chapter Thirty-six?

8. What does Edik recall his mother often telling him?

9. What does Edik hear in his father’s voice when he leaves the monastery?

10. In Chapter Twenty-five, what reason does Cannoc state is right for Beatryce and Jack to be afraid?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel orients itself around a prophetic text: the Chronicles of Sorrowing. What significance inheres in the name of that text? How does the novel support the idea of that significance?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of Cannoc’s assumed name.

Essay Topic 3

Note what characters are named in the text and which are not. What significance does the refusal to name certain characters have in the novel, and how does that significance emerge?

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