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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Peter of Wareham become angry with Prior Philip?
(a) Philip forces Peter to clean the cathedral.
(b) Philip forces Peter to fast and pray.
(c) Philip tells Peter to be more humble.
(d) Philip assigns Peter the role of almoner, which requires a lot of travel.

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

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

4. What impresses Prior Philip about Tom's plans for the cathedral?
(a) His detailed calculations of cost, time, and labor
(b) His intricate, costly designs
(c) The cheap cost for materials he would use
(d) Tom will work for room and board.

5. Who is the master quarryman that Tom hires?
(a) Peter Wareham
(b) Otto Blackface
(c) Alfred Builder
(d) Otto Blackbeard

6. What action does the person take who screamed at the prisoner's death?
(a) Takes a lamb and stabs it in the heart
(b) Throws feces at the accusers
(c) Grabs the prisoner's dangling feet
(d) Takes a cockerel out of a sack and slices its throat

7. What type of death does the prisoner experience when the oxcart is pulled away?
(a) He gasps for breath for a long time.
(b) He kicks and fights against the noose.
(c) His neck breaks and death is quick.
(d) He strangles slowly.

8. What horrifies Philip when he first sees Kingsbridge?
(a) The collapsed cathedral
(b) Cruelty and torture
(c) Poverty
(d) Ruin and disrepair

9. Who are the three men that ride behind the oxcart that carries the prisoner?
(a) The king, the queen, and the priest
(b) A monk, the king, and an earl
(c) A knight, a priest, and a monk
(d) An earl, a prior, and a knight

10. Who does William Hamleigh almost run down with his powerful war horse?
(a) Martha
(b) Agnes
(c) Tom
(d) Aliena

11. Who does Philip talk to at Kingsbridge instead of the bishop?
(a) Francis
(b) William Hamleigh
(c) Archdeacon Waleran
(d) King Stephen

12. What reaction do the old women have toward the prisoner?
(a) They are glad he is about to hang.
(b) They feel sorry for him.
(c) They think he is handsome.
(d) They feel he deserves his fate.

13. Where do Aliena and Richard intend to go after their escape?
(a) To Winchester to find out where their father is
(b) To Salisbury
(c) To the forest where no one can find them
(d) To Kingsbridge to seek Prior Philip's help

14. What does the condemned man look like?
(a) He is young and pale with green eyes and red hair.
(b) He is tall, dark, and scruffy.
(c) He is old, wrinkled, and bald.
(d) He is short, fat, and bald.

15. Why doesn't the master builder of Salisbury Cathedral hire Tom?
(a) He doesn't like the looks of Tom.
(b) He is jealous of Tom.
(c) He feels Tom is not qualified.
(d) He has too many masons already.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Prior Philip's biggest problem at his small monastery?

3. What does Philip's brother, Francis, surprise him with when he comes to visit?

4. Who comes out of the forest to help Martha when she is hit on the head by a robber?

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

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