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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 does Joan think of this impending marriage?

2. Why does Richild arrange a marriage for Joan?

3. Why does Gudrun support her husband's lie that the emissary should be looking for John, not Joan in chapter 6?

4. What happened to destroy the small village where Gudrun grew up?

5. What subjects did Joan strive to learn?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Joan survive? How does she plan to continue to survive?

3. What event allows Joan to take on the persona of her brother and enter a monastery under his name?

4. What person comes to visit the Canon of Ingleheim and what does he try to teach him about logic?

5. Who is Pope when Anastasius is a young child?

6. Who comes to visit Joan and discovers the truth about her identity?

7. What causes the death of the servant Bertha on the walk to the fair?

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

9. How does Gudrun, Joan's mother, feel about the things Aesculapius is teaching her daughter?

10. Why does Joan insist on helping cure a woman who has been diagnosed with leprosy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Joan's rise in the Catholic Church. How does Joan come to be a monk? When is Joan promoted to priest? What is the reaction of other monks? How does this reaction foreshadow other times in which Joan's rise will negatively or positively affect those around her? How does Joan come to be doctor to the Pope? Why is the Pope's brother threatened by her presence? What action does the brother take against Joan? How does Joan's position in the Pope's home eventually lead to her becoming Pope?

Essay Topic 2

How does jealousy lead to Gerold's death? Why is Gerold targeted and murdered? How does this lead to Joan's downfall? Does the person behind this plot get what he wanted? How does this person cause the disappearance of Joan from the history books? Where does Joan die? What causes her death? How does the author use Joan's death in this place to prove to the reader that Joan really existed?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following objects and their significance to the characters and plot development within the novel:

1. The hydraulic machine

2. St. Catherine medal

3. Joan's book by Homer.

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