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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. Where is Tom's third child born?
(a) In a warm cottage
(b) In a monastery
(c) In a frozen forest
(d) In a church

2. What is the historical significance of the ship that flounders off Balfour?
(a) Queen Maud's son is aboard.
(b) King Henry's only heir perishes in the wreck.
(c) King Stephen's heir perishes.
(d) King Henry's wife dies in the wreck.

3. What do the accusers do as the young man hangs from the noose?
(a) They jeer the person who screamed at the prisoner's death.
(b) They turn and ride away.
(c) They laugh at the dead man.
(d) They stare at the gallows.

4. Who teaches Aliena about the wool business?
(a) Francis
(b) Meg, a wool merchant's wife
(c) Ellen
(d) Prior Philip

5. What is the secret compromise that Philip proposes to the Hamleighs about the forests and quarry in Shiring?
(a) Kingsbridge gets the earl's money and the Hamleighs get the earldom.
(b) Kingsbridge gets the forest and the Hamleigh's get the quarries.
(c) Kingsbridge gets the farmland and the Hamleighs get the forest.
(d) Kingsbridge gets the forest and quarries, while the Hamleighs get the earldom and farmland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Aliena and Richard find the money their father had left them?

2. What is the favorite event for the young boys who gather in the marketplace?

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

4. What is the condition of the monastery after 2 years under the care of Prior Philip?

5. What is the reaction of the young boys toward the prisoner?

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