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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. Why are the boys terrified at the moment of the prisoner's death?
(a) Their fathers come to take them home.
(b) The prisoner's dead eyes stare at them.
(c) The person the prisoner was staring at drops to the ground, uttering a curse.
(d) Their mothers chase them with switches.

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

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

4. To where does Abbot Peter transfer Prior Philip?
(a) St-John-of-the-Forest
(b) Salisbury
(c) St. Michael's
(d) Shiring

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Tom Builder been hired to build for the earl's daughter and her fiancée?

2. What is the condition of Tom and his family by the time Christmas arrives?

3. What does Agnes tell Tom when she brings him his lunch?

4. What is the secret compromise that Philip proposes to the Hamleighs about the forests and quarry in Shiring?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the location and outcome of the birth of Tom's third child.

2. Describe the conversation the young men have about witnessing other hangings.

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

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

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

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

7. Describe how Tom is hired to begin repairs of Kingsbridge Cathedral and what is the condition Philip sets about Ellen?

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

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

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

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