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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Tom and Agnes do when they locate the thief that robbed them
(a) They follow him and Tom kills him in a struggle.
(b) They run away from him.
(c) They have the sheriff arrest him.
(d) They wrestle him to the ground and he returns what he had stolen.

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

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

4. Who comes out of the forest to help Martha when she is hit on the head by a robber?
(a) William Hamleigh
(b) Aliena
(c) Ellen and her son, Jack
(d) Prior Philip

5. What color eyes does the person have that the prisoner stares at in the crowd?
(a) Green as the grass
(b) Golden and luminous
(c) Blue like the sea
(d) Gray and dull

6. Where do Aliena and Richard find the money their father had left them?
(a) With a priest who has spent some of it
(b) With a friend in Salisbury
(c) With a peasant family
(d) With the monks in a monastery

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

8. Where do Tom and his family go for shelter from the freezing weather?
(a) To the monastery
(b) To the church
(c) To the earl's castle
(d) Ellen and Jack invite them into their cave.

9. What happens to Philip's and Waleran's relationship after Philip makes a compromise with the Hamleighs?
(a) They become enemies for life.
(b) They become close partners.
(c) They become indifferent to one another.
(d) They become close friends.

10. What transpires when Tom and his quarrymen arrive at the quarry to start getting stone?
(a) They mine plenty of stone to begin the cathedral.
(b) The men refuse to work and go on strike.
(c) They find the quarry has been mined out.
(d) William Hamleigh's men are mining the quarry and will not let Tom enter.

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

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

13. Where do Philip and his brother, Francis grow up after they are orphaned?
(a) In the streets
(b) In an orphanage
(c) In the forest
(d) In a monastery

14. Why does Lord William Hamleigh dismiss Tom and his stonemasons?
(a) William finds a cheaper builder.
(b) William decides to move to a different town.
(c) William's engagement is broken off.
(d) William decides to live in his father's castle.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the description of the priest who is one of the condemned man's accusers?

3. Where do Aliena and Richard discover their father is being held?

4. What is Tom Builder's one passion in life?

5. As Aliena plans the escape from William, what does she pack to take with her?

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