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

2. How many men show up to work on the cathedral?
(a) 25
(b) 100
(c) 1000
(d) 500

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

4. How do the young maidens feel about the prisoner?
(a) They think he is ugly.
(b) They think he is handsome.
(c) They think he is retarded.
(d) They think he is possessed.

5. How does Philip plan to speed up the work on the cathedral repairs?
(a) Anyone who works on the cathedral will receive a full pardon for all their sins as well as food and drink.
(b) He raises the mason's daily wage.
(c) He brings in more masons from the city.
(d) He has the masons work overtime.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the first things Philip does in his new priory?

2. What does the condemned man look like?

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

4. What are the values of the boys who gather in the marketplace?

5. How many passengers aboard the sunken ship survive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the fate of the White Ship and its passengers after it sets sail from England in 1120?

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

3. Who is riding behind the oxcart that brings the condemned man to the gallows?

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

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

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

7. Why does Lord William Hamleigh fire Tom from the job of building him a house?

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

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

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

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