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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 warning does a messenger bring the Pope on the Day of Ascension?
(a) That Joan has escaped and will seek revenge.
(b) That Lothar is coming.
(c) That the Saracens are coming.
(d) That the Emperor will be appointing a new Pope.

2. What scheme has the missus concocted with the courtesan, Marioza?
(a) To bribe John of Angelicus to stop treating the Pope.
(b) To seduce John of Angelicus and ruin his reputation.
(c) To prove John of Angelicus is not a real doctor.
(d) To prove John of Angelicus is really Joan of Ingleheim.

3. What kind of a leader is Pope Leo?
(a) Just and benevolent.
(b) Constructive and effective.
(c) Tyrannical and power hungry.
(d) Lazy and ineffective.

4. Who is fighting to gain the dead Emperor's title?
(a) His three cousins.
(b) His three brothers.
(c) His three nephews.
(d) His three sons.

5. What is done with the surviving Saracens?
(a) They are put in a dungeon.
(b) They are hung.
(c) They are forced to work on the defense project in Rome.
(d) They are sent back to their home country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What magical event takes place when Lothar reaches Rome?

2. Who created this miracle?

3. Whose army arrives to save the people of Rome from the Saracens?

4. On whose side does Gerold choose to fight?

5. What accomplice to the poisoners is found dead in the river?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joan implement in order to help slow the spread of the plague during Church services?

2. What does Joan encourage Pope Sergius to do that makes Benedict unhappy?

3. Why does Joan finally agree to run away with Gerold?

4. Why is Cardinal Leo elected Pope over Anastasius?

5. Who does Gerold support in the battle between the dead Emperor's three sons?

6. Why does Pope Leo excommunicate Anastasius?

7. Why is Joan arrested? What is her punishment?

8. To what office does Anastasius aspire? For what reason?

9. Who starts the fire that burns the new wall Pope Leo is building and destroys several other buildings, including the school? Why?

10. Why does Benedict abandon his brother and leave Rome?

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