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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cuthbert tell Godric that a man leaves behind when he leaves home?
(a) A piece of his memory.
(b) His values.
(c) His identity.
(d) A scrap of his heart.

2. Which Jew turns Christian in the book?
(a) Ailred.
(b) Reginald.
(c) Haggai.
(d) Godric.

3. In Godric's dreams, a sack of _____ is on his father's knee.
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Rocks.
(c) Apples.
(d) Onions.

4. What has Godric built that he wades up to as the Wear is surging and rolling to flood?
(a) A storage shed.
(b) A tree house.
(c) A well.
(d) A little church.

5. Where does Godric's snake, Tune, sleep?
(a) Under the bed.
(b) Under the rug.
(c) In a jar.
(d) In a cigar box.

6. What does Godric liken Gillian's laughter to?
(a) A waterfall.
(b) A babbling brook.
(c) A silver bell.
(d) Sun bouncing through dew drops.

7. The pictish king is sitting on a rock picking his teeth with the bone of a _____ when Ailred meets him.
(a) Hawk.
(b) Weasel.
(c) Rat.
(d) Codfish.

8. What does Aedwen say has turned Godric's Saxon brain when he tries to tell her of the maid he sees in the woods?
(a) Forest mushrooms.
(b) Romish figs.
(c) Ventian wine.
(d) Yellow lettuce.

9. Captain Mouse is Godric's charm against _____on the Saint Esprit.
(a) Hitting rocks.
(b) The Evil Eye.
(c) Dragons from the West.
(d) Disease.

10. Where is Ailred made abbot for a time?
(a) Rievaulx.
(b) Rouen.
(c) Marseilles.
(d) Morceau.

11. What does Aedwen give the Roman with the crooked back in order to show her and Godric the holy sites of Rome?
(a) A miniature bronze statue.
(b) A gold piece.
(c) A copper brooch.
(d) A silver amulet.

12. Reginald believes that Godric means _____.
(a) "Gold rite".
(b) "God reign".
(c) "Good lamb".
(d) "Goat rhyme".

13. What color are Aedlward's eyes?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Brown.
(d) Grey.

14. What is Henry Second called?
(a) Becket's bane.
(b) The Righteous.
(c) The Terrible.
(d) Regent's advisor.

15. Who kicked Godric's father in the groin before he died?
(a) Burcwen.
(b) A white stallion.
(c) A grey cob.
(d) William.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Godric learn has saved him from the sea by speaking to him beneath the waves?

2. In the Lady month of May, Aedwen is a _____ again.

3. Ailred's cough is like _____ to Godric.

4. What does Godric lay at his father's grave stone?

5. Where does the Saint Esprit go down with Roger Mouse?

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