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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. What is the name of the woods around the Wear River?
(a) Falkland.
(b) Great Rocks.
(c) Finchale.
(d) Auckland.

2. What is Godric sprinkled with when he is being prepared for Christmas mass?
(a) Rain water.
(b) Rosewater.
(c) Lemon juice.
(d) Holy water.

3. What does Godric say that prayer is?
(a) Connection to God.
(b) Solace from tyranny.
(c) Shooting shafts in the dark.
(d) A good way to exercise the tongue.

4. What does Elric thrash himself with?
(a) Leather straps.
(b) Sycamore saplings.
(c) Willow wands.
(d) Horse-tail whips.

5. Who summons Godric to Christmas mass at Durham?
(a) Bishop Pudsey.
(b) Ailred.
(c) Bishop Flambard.
(d) Reginald.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aedwen, in one of her sick stupors, thinks she remembers that the pilgrim Maud had an _____.

2. Who does Godric think never bathed more chaste and fair than Burcwen?

3. Hedwic sees her life as being in Hell with her as _____.

4. What does Godric say of his incestuous encounter with Burcwen?

5. Godric feels that he fails Christ as a _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Godric bid his feet to do and why?

2. How does Perkin help Godric select his tomb?

3. How does Godric describe the Wear River and what is its significance to him?

4. What is the truth about Burcwen's feelings for William? What does she call him?

5. Describe the antics of the choirboys at the church where Godric works.

6. What happened fifty years before when Ranulf Flambard brought Cuthbert's bones to Durham?

7. What impression does King Baldwin have on Godric and Roger Mouse when they first meet him?

8. When Reginald is writing in his book about Godric's service with Falkes de Granvill, how does he judge the noble lord as Godric tells his story? How does this reflect Reginald's belief that all men are essentially good?

9. Describe the apparition that Godric sees when he prays to the Mother Mary.

10. What happens to Godric as he passes through the Durham gate on his way to Bishop Pudsey's Christmas mass?

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