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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: 1136 - 1137.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Tom ask Ellen after staying with her for a time?
(a) Can his family stay with her?
(b) Will she marry him?
(c) What can he do to help her?
(d) Can she take care of his family while he goes to find work?

2. What angers Philip about the monks right after he arrives at his new assignment?
(a) Their unfriendliness
(b) Their disheveled appearance
(c) Their disobedience and gluttony
(d) They gamble and drink

3. What does the prisoner do after the noose is placed around his neck?
(a) He begins to cry.
(b) He begins to scream.
(c) He begins to beg for mercy.
(d) He starts to sing.

4. What is the condemned man accused of stealing?
(a) A gold relic from the church
(b) A knight's sword
(c) A loaf of bread
(d) A silver, jeweled chalice from the monastery

5. How does Philip plan to speed up the work on the cathedral repairs?
(a) He brings in more masons from the city.
(b) He raises the mason's daily wage.
(c) He has the masons work overtime.
(d) Anyone who works on the cathedral will receive a full pardon for all their sins as well as food and drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the old women in the crowd conclude about the person at whom the prisoner is looking?

2. What do the older women bring to the marketplace when they go to watch the hanging?

3. How does the prisoner react when one of the boys spits in his face?

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

5. Why are the boys terrified at the moment of the prisoner's death?

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