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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does Aliena react when a robber strikes Richard on the head, trying to steal his sword?
(a) She stabs the thief in the eye.
(b) She grabs Richard and runs into the woods.
(c) She cuts off the robber's head with the sword.
(d) She stabs the thief with her dagger and has Richard kill him with his sword.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How many passengers aboard the sunken ship survive?
(a) Five
(b) Three
(c) One
(d) Ten

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

11. What does King Stephen decide about the ownership of the Shiring quarry?
(a) Waleran owns the quarry.
(b) Kingsbridge owns the quarry.
(c) King Stephen owns the quarry.
(d) The Hamleighs own the quarry but Kingsbridge has the rights to mine the quarry.

12. What is the language the condemned man speaks?
(a) Norman French
(b) German
(c) Gaelic
(d) Latin

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

14. What has Tom Builder been hired to build for the earl's daughter and her fiancée?
(a) A protective stone wall
(b) A stone fireplace
(c) A guest house
(d) A fine house

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What transpires when Tom and his quarrymen arrive at the quarry to start getting stone?

2. Why doesn't the master builder of Salisbury Cathedral hire Tom?

3. What does Philip decide to do with the baby that Francis brought to the monastery?

4. Why do three men ride behind the prisoner?

5. Why does Philip go to see the Bishop of Kingsbridge after talking to his brother, Francis?

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