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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the name of the ship that sinks after setting sail from England in 1120?
(a) The White Ship
(b) The Queen Maud
(c) The Balfour
(d) The Queen Elizabeth

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Agnes' condition after the birth?

2. Why does Peter of Wareham become angry with Prior Philip?

3. What do the older women bring to the marketplace when they go to watch the hanging?

4. Where is Tom's third child born?

5. What impresses Tom about Ellen's son, Jack?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of what is the crime that the condemned man has been found guilty?

2. What is Tom Builder's greatest passion in life?

3. Describe the plan Philip devises to get more work done on the cathedral before the visit from Bishop Henry.

4. What is the reaction of the townspeople as the man is led to the gallows?

5. Describe the condemned man's appearance.

6. How does Tom first meet Ellen and her son, Jack?

7. What happens when Tom asks the master builder of a cathedral in Salisbury if he can have a job?

8. What does Prior Philip have the monks of the monastery do when William Hamleigh's men will not let, Tom, the master builder of Kingsbridge, go into the quarry for stone?

9. What is the deal that Archdeacon Waleran makes with Philip after the death of Prior James, the Prior of Kingsbridge?

10. What does Tom ask Ellen after she allows Tom and the children to stay in her cave, giving them food and shelter?

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