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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What subjects did Joan strive to learn?
(a) Religion and medicine.
(b) Medicine and logic.
(c) Religion and philosophy.
(d) Homeopathy and paganism.

2. What does Richild do to Joan to force her to attend the wedding?
(a) Richild has the Bishop imprison Joan until the wedding.
(b) Richild ties Joan up.
(c) Richild drugs Joan.
(d) Richild calls the military to escort Joan to the wedding.

3. With whom is Joan to live while attending the school?
(a) Count Gerold of Villaris.
(b) The Canon of Ingleheim.
(c) Odo, the school teacher.
(d) The Bishop at his Palace.

4. What is the name of the school Joan would eventually attend?
(a) Gudrun.
(b) Dorstadt.
(c) Villiards.
(d) Fulda.

5. What is Joan learning under the tutor of Brother Benjamin?
(a) Logic.
(b) Medicine.
(c) History.
(d) Religion.

6. What happens to John and the emissary as they walk in the woods in Chapter 6?
(a) They attack an unarmed group of travelers.
(b) They are attacked by Norsemen.
(c) They decide to run away.
(d) They are attacked by a brigand.

7. What advice does Gudrun give her daughter that Joan will recall all her life?
(a) Never depend on a man.
(b) Never allow her sex to hold her down.
(c) Never let a man raise a hand to her.
(d) Never fall in love.

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

9. In what year is Joan of Ingleheim born?
(a) 1418.
(b) 1814.
(c) 814.
(d) 418.

10. Why is it an insult to her mother for Joan to be tutored by a Catholic teacher?
(a) Because her mother has taught her about Saxon gods, considered pagan by Catholics.
(b) Because her mother should be her primary tutor.
(c) Because her mother was not consulted before Joan began her studies.
(d) Because her mother is uneducated and does not understand what Joan has learned.

11. Why does Richild arrange a marriage for Joan?
(a) She believes Joan needs more structure in her life.
(b) Because she believes Joan is in love with her future husband.
(c) To get her away from the other children in the school.
(d) To get her away from Gerold.

12. How does Joan end up traveling to Dorstadt?
(a) Joan convinces the Bishop's men that her parents want her to accompany her brother.
(b) Joan flirts with the men and offers to marry one in exchange for going on the trip.
(c) Joan pretends to be John.
(d) Joan pretends to be John's servant.

13. Who does Gerold kill on the docks in a rage?
(a) His assistant.
(b) Odo.
(c) A Viking.
(d) Joan

14. Who does Joan meet who argues that logic does not threaten faith?
(a) Gerold.
(b) Aesculapius.
(c) Odo.
(d) Anastasius.

15. Why is Joan beaten unconscious by her father at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Joan decides her father is too ignorant to explain the concepts in her gift from Aesculapius to her father.
(b) Joan refuses to read her gift from Aesculapius to her father.
(c) Joan refuses to scrape the words from the pages of her gift from Aesculapius.
(d) Joan refuses to allow her father to burn her gift from Aesculapius.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Joan's mother considered a heathen by her father?

2. Who sees Joan in an embrace with a married man at the end of Chapter 9?

3. Where does Joan travel to with Count Gerold and his family in Chapter 9?

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

5. In Chapter 15, who offers punishment to the monks at Fulda?

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