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

2. What does Philip's brother, Francis, surprise him with when he comes to visit?
(a) He brings needed donations.
(b) He brings a new bible.
(c) He brings fresh fruit.
(d) He brings a baby.

3. 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 wrestle him to the ground and he returns what he had stolen.
(d) They have the sheriff arrest him.

4. What is the historical significance of the ship that flounders off Balfour?
(a) Queen Maud's son is aboard.
(b) King Henry's wife dies in the wreck.
(c) King Stephen's heir perishes.
(d) King Henry's only heir perishes in the wreck.

5. What does Aliena buy to start up her wool business?
(a) A cart, fleeces, and an old horse
(b) A flock of sheep
(c) Two ewes and one ram
(d) Three sheep and a sheep dog

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men show up to work on the cathedral?

2. How does Aliena react when a robber strikes Richard on the head, trying to steal his sword?

3. Why do the townspeople find the whole situation of the hanging strange?

4. How does Philip plan to speed up the work on the cathedral repairs?

5. Who does Philip find hiding in Earl Bartholomew's castle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Summarize the actions of the townspeople before the hanging takes place.

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

5. What is the vow that Aliena's father asks her to make when she and Richard visit him in prison?

6. Why does Abbot Peter transfer Prior Philip out of the monastery where he was born and where does he send him?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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