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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. Where do Aliena and Richard discover their father is being held?

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

3. What is the favorite event for the young boys who gather in the marketplace?

4. Who comes out of the forest to help Martha when she is hit on the head by a robber?

5. Who does William Hamleigh almost run down with his powerful war horse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the business that Aliena begins when she gets the money her father left for her and Richard with a priest in Winchester?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Analyze the resolution of the story as it relates to each of the main characters in the novel.

2) Explain the metamorphosis each of their experiences in the final chapters.

3) Describe how Philip's thoughts that the world will never be quite the same relate to the characters and the crown.

Essay Topic 2

1) Analyze Jack's coming of age throughout the novel.

2) What fears and emotions does he experience as he grows from childhood to adulthood?

3) How does his outlook on life, education, and love change as he develops from a boy into a man?

4) Cite examples of Jack's character changes throughout his life.

Essay Topic 3

1) Describe the events following the sinking of the White Ship.

2) What is the fate of lone survivor and how is he involved with Aliena, Jack, Waleran Bigot, Percy Hamleigh, and Prior James?

3) How does the survivors' lives affect the lives of these characters?

4) Cite examples from the novel.

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