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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the three men that ride behind the oxcart that carries the prisoner?

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

3. What is Tom Builder's one passion in life?

4. What do Tom and Agnes do when they locate the thief that robbed them

5. What is the description of the priest who is one of the condemned man's accusers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Summarize the events that led up to Philip's raising Jonathan in the monastery?

2) How do these events relate to the plot of the story?

3) How do the events affect the characters in the novel? Cite examples from the novel to support the answer.

Essay Topic 2

1) Compare and contrast the characters of Richard and William Hamleigh.

2) Summarize the impact each character has on one another.

3) How is each character realistic in their struggles to attain the earldom?

4) Is Richard or William more effective in their methods of requiring Shiring?

5) Cite examples from the novel to support the answer.

Essay Topic 3

1) Compare the hanging of Jack Shareburg in the beginning of the novel to the hanging of William Hamleigh at the end.

2) Compare the reaction of the two prisoners, and the reaction of the spectators while awaiting the hanging.

3) What do the hangings reveal about the character of Jack and William?

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