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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 do the townspeople find the whole situation of the hanging strange?
(a) They find it strange that no one is going to see the hanging.
(b) Hangings usually take place in private.
(c) They don't understand why the condemned man would steal something he couldn't resell.
(d) They are not used to seeing a man hanged.

2. What do the young men in the marketplace think is lucky for a condemned man?
(a) To break his neck, resulting in a quick death
(b) To hang slowly in the hope of being rescued
(c) To be forgiven by a priest
(d) To have a friend shoot him with an arrow before he hangs

3. What does Prior Philip have the monks do when they go to the quarry?
(a) They light candles and begin to sing holy songs.
(b) They pray for the safety of the men.
(c) They bless the quarrymen.
(d) They mine the stone.

4. Where do Aliena and Richard discover their father is being held?
(a) In a church basement
(b) In the monastery
(c) In prison
(d) In a cave

5. What type of people live in the homes of the town square?
(a) Soldiers
(b) Craftsmen and traders
(c) Prostitutes
(d) The poor of the town

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How do the young maidens feel about the prisoner?

4. What does the condemned man look like?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the favorite pastime of the young boys who gather early in the marketplace?

9. 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?

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

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