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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 does Perkin say he found in Godric's hair when he cleans him up for Christmas mass?
(a) Mouse droppings and a spider's nest.
(b) A key and some moss.
(c) A casserole of food.
(d) A bird's nest and two caterpillars.

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

3. What does Godric want God to anoint so that he may be a better person for Burcwen?
(a) His heart.
(b) His eyes.
(c) His head.
(d) His ears.

4. Who does Godric think never bathed more chaste and fair than Burcwen?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Edith.
(c) Susanna.
(d) Sarah.

5. Godric doubts that Elric has washed since _____.
(a) Confessor's day.
(b) King's day.
(c) Christmastide.
(d) Passover.

Short Answer Questions

1. The church where Goric meets Elric is near _____.

2. Which field is thick with corpses from fighting between the Frankish knights and the Turks?

3. Who says to Godric that life is like porridge?

4. Where is Aedward finally buried?

5. Where does Elric live?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Elric, in all his rantings and his hermit lifestyle, treated by the community that surrounds where he lives?

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

3. What does Godric say of faith, hope, and charity? Why does he say this?

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

5. Describe the cathedral at Durham.

6. How does Elric justify his sparse lifestyle?

7. How does Godric's family find out where he is living when their house burns down?

8. How does Godric forgive Aedlward for being a distant father?

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

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

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