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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What title did Joan's father hold?

2. What does Aesculapius give Joan when he leaves?

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

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

5. What situation did Joan's continued success in her education depend upon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joan manage to go with John to attend school at Dorstadt?

2. What does John steal from his father? For what reason?

3. Who does Aesculapius want to take on as a student?

4. What does Anastasius witness as he waits to visit his Uncle Theodorus?

5. Who catches Gerold and Joan in an embrace?

6. Where did Joan go after the massacre at the church?

7. From what background are Joan's parents and why do these backgrounds not mix?

8. How does her friendship with Gerold continue Joan's education?

9. Who teaches Joan to read and write? Why do they keep this secret?

10. How does Richild convince the Bishop to back Joan's marriage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Gerold? How does Gerold win Joan's affections? How does Gerold's affections for Joan go against the teachings of the Catholic Church? Who tells Gerold's wife that Gerold and Joan are lovers? Is this true? What does Richild do to keep Joan away from Gerold? Why does the Bishop go along with Richild's plot against Joan? How does Richild get Joan to the church the day of the massacre? How does the massacre change Joan's life? Why does Gerold believe Joan has been taken away by the Norsemen? How does Gerold react to the loss of Joan and his entire family?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Joan's childhood, paying special attention to the things that affected her choices in young adulthood. Who is Joan? Who was her father? Who was her mother? What was the relationship like between Joan's parents? What impact did this relationship have Joan's emotional growth as a child? How did Joan's father treat her? Why? How was Joan's relationship with her mother? What was unusual about this relationship?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Joan's argument with Odo in regards to the inferiority of women. Why does Joan enter into this argument? What does Joan hope to prove with her argument? Why does Odo argue with Joan? What is his attitude toward Joan? How does Joan win this argument? What does this say about Joan's intelligence? How does this argument set the tone for Joan's stay at the school? Does this argument make Odo an enemy for Joan?

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