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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harry want Catherine to help him do?
(a) Get pieces from Charlamagne's chess set
(b) Smuggle new historical relics into Algeria
(c) Locate his missing relative in Algeria
(d) Find safe passage to Algeria

2. Where did Mireille and Valentine hide the chess pieces they were to protect?
(a) Left them buried at the Abbey
(b) Buried under one of David's trees
(c) Carry them on their person at all times
(d) Hid them in their mattress

3. What does the fortune teller tell Catherine?
(a) She will have great fortune
(b) She is in danger
(c) She will find her true love
(d) She will have a child soon

4. Which character is considered one of the eight "collection points?"
(a) Valentine
(b) Miereille
(c) Abbess
(d) Bishop

5. What does the Arab soldier tell Charlemagne and Garin a blood wager will bring to the person making the wager?
(a) Paradise on Earth
(b) Never ending wealth
(c) Immortality
(d) Death

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Lily shocked when she and Catherine arrive at the chess tournament?

2. What does Solarin call which is against all of the rules of chess?

3. How does Germaine convince Camille that she must be spared the trials and executions?

4. What signals that it is time to stop working and return to the convent for the nuns?

5. How many narrative lines does the author use in this novel?

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