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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue: 1123.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the ship that sinks after setting sail from England in 1120?
(a) The Queen Elizabeth
(b) The Balfour
(c) The White Ship
(d) The Queen Maud

2. What do the old women in the crowd conclude about the person at whom the prisoner is looking?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) He is the prisoner's brother.
(c) He is old and weary.
(d) She is about to die.

3. Why do three men ride behind the prisoner?
(a) They are his accusers.
(b) They mock the prisoner publicly.
(c) They try to keep order.
(d) They recite the prisoner's crime.

4. Why are the boys terrified at the moment of the prisoner's death?
(a) Their fathers come to take them home.
(b) Their mothers chase them with switches.
(c) The prisoner's dead eyes stare at them.
(d) The person the prisoner was staring at drops to the ground, uttering a curse.

5. What is the language the condemned man speaks?
(a) Latin
(b) Norman French
(c) German
(d) Gaelic

Short Answer Questions

1. How many passengers aboard the sunken ship survive?

2. What is the condemned man accused of stealing?

3. What do the accusers do as the young man hangs from the noose?

4. Who nudges the sheriff impatiently, wanting to hurry along the hanging?

5. What does the condemned man look like?

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