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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 is the favorite event for the young boys who gather in the marketplace?
(a) Cock fighting
(b) Buying treats at the market
(c) Watching a hanging
(d) Watching the king pass by

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the condemned man accused of stealing?

2. What reaction do the old women have toward the prisoner?

3. Who nudges the sheriff impatiently, wanting to hurry along the hanging?

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

5. Who does Philip talk to at Kingsbridge instead of the bishop?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the business that Aliena begins when she gets the money her father left for her and Richard with a priest in Winchester?

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

3. When the condemned man dies, what is the reaction of the young pregnant girl to whom he was singing?

4. What events take place when William Hamleigh goes to the castle at Shiring to claim it as his own?

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

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

7. 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?

8. What does Tom discover when he has a change of heart and goes back to Agnes' grave to get the baby?

9. How do Aliena and Richard escape from the castle?

10. What does the condemned man do as the noose is placed around his neck?

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