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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joan plan to do to avoid getting married?
(a) Enlist the Bishop's support.
(b) Go home to her mother.
(c) Request the help of the church council.
(d) Run away with John.

2. Why is Aesculapius fired from the schola?
(a) For his beliefs.
(b) For breaking a vow of celibacy.
(c) For inappropriate behavior with students.
(d) For teaching a female student.

3. How does Joan's father react to her display of intelligence in her attempts to allow her to take up Matthew's studies?
(a) He reminds her that females are not allowed to be educated.
(b) He accuses her of killing Matthew in order to take his place in his studies.
(c) He sends her to school.
(d) He calls her unnatural and blames her for Matthew's death.

4. What does Joan's father do when he sees her reading the book Aesculapius gave Joan?
(a) He asks her to read it to him.
(b) He orders her to scrape the words from the pages.
(c) He burns it.
(d) He asks her to explain the main concepts to him.

5. What does a fortune teller tell Joan in Chapter 9?
(a) She will marry a man she dislikes.
(b) She will become famous.
(c) She will become a nun.
(d) She will have greatness and grief beyond belief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Joan's role in history taken from the history books?

2. What does Gerold find when he goes to the chapel in Villairis?

3. Who does Joan miss the most now that she is away from home?

4. What does Mathew begin to teach six-year-old Joan?

5. What causes Joan to become ill in Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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