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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Philip find hiding in Earl Bartholomew's castle?
(a) William Hamleigh
(b) Ellen and Jack
(c) Aliena, Richard, and their manservant, Matthew
(d) Martha and Alfred

2. What do the older women bring to the marketplace when they go to watch the hanging?
(a) They bring their weaving to pass the time.
(b) They bring clothing to mend while at the hanging.
(c) They bring ale and food to sell at the hanging.
(d) They bring wooden stools to sit while watching the hanging.

3. How do the young maidens feel about the prisoner?
(a) They think he is possessed.
(b) They think he is retarded.
(c) They think he is handsome.
(d) They think he is ugly.

4. What is Tom Builder's one passion in life?
(a) To be a master builder of a cathedral
(b) To design the king's castle
(c) To be an architect
(d) To be a master builder of a castle

5. What is Prior Philip's biggest problem at his small monastery?
(a) Peter of Wareham
(b) Francis
(c) Archdeacon Waleran
(d) William Hamleigh

6. What happens when Aliena tries to sell her fleeces at the market?
(a) She gets full price for the fleeces.
(b) No one will buy them from a woman.
(c) She is only offered half of what they are worth.
(d) The fleeces are stolen from her.

7. How many men show up to work on the cathedral?
(a) 100
(b) 500
(c) 25
(d) 1000

8. What does Philip decide to do with the baby that Francis brought to the monastery?
(a) He leaves the baby at a convent.
(b) He decides to keep the baby and raise it in the monastery.
(c) He gives the baby to a peasant family.
(d) He gives the baby to an orphanage.

9. Who nudges the sheriff impatiently, wanting to hurry along the hanging?
(a) The king
(b) The bailiff
(c) The knight
(d) The priest

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

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

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

13. Who does the prisoner look at while he stands on the gallows?
(a) His mother
(b) A young boy
(c) His father
(d) A girl of about 15 years of age

14. What does Agnes tell Tom when she brings him his lunch?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She found a weaving job.
(c) She is leaving him.
(d) She is going to visit her sister.

15. What do the young men in the marketplace think is lucky for a condemned man?
(a) To have a friend shoot him with an arrow before he hangs
(b) To be forgiven by a priest
(c) To break his neck, resulting in a quick death
(d) To hang slowly in the hope of being rescued

Short Answer Questions

1. What angers Philip about the monks right after he arrives at his new assignment?

2. What has Tom Builder been hired to build for the earl's daughter and her fiancée?

3. Who teaches Aliena about the wool business?

4. What question does Tom ask Ellen after staying with her for a time?

5. What does the prisoner do after the noose is placed around his neck?

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