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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Merivel buy in preparation for seeing the King?
(a) Nothing.
(b) New clothes, a wig, and shoes.
(c) A gift of gems for the king.
(d) A portrait from Finn.

2. From what symptoms is Pearce suffering?
(a) Muscle aches, weakness, and fever.
(b) Lung pain, trouble breathing, and sweats.
(c) Confusion, loss of balance, and headaches.
(d) Stomach pains, racing heart, and insomnia.

3. How does Merivel treat Pearce?
(a) With hourly medicines and exercises.
(b) With bedrest and herbal remedies.
(c) With an herbal wrap and steam.
(d) With bloodletting.

4. What does Piepold spend his days thinking of?
(a) Ways to kill people.
(b) Ways to conquer England.
(c) Ways to harm himself.
(d) Ways to escape.

5. Where does Merivel meet Finn, after not seeing him for a long time?
(a) At Whitehall.
(b) In a pub.
(c) In a church.
(d) In a park.

6. How does Merivel feel about Katherine?
(a) He loves her.
(b) He lusts after her.
(c) He feels like a brother to her.
(d) He hates her.

7. Who helps Merivel make a rag doll for Katherine?
(a) Ambrose.
(b) Pearce.
(c) Eleanor.
(d) Hannah.

8. What happens when Merivel tries to catch up with Piepold's relatives?
(a) His horse is too slow.
(b) His horse gets sick and refuses to move.
(c) His horse gets a lame foot.
(d) He is thrown off his horse.

9. Where do Merivel and Katherine go?
(a) Katherine's uncle's house.
(b) Katherine's brother's house.
(c) Katherine's sister's house.
(d) Katherine's mother's house.

10. What medical practice does Merivel perform regularly at the hospital?
(a) Bloodletting.
(b) Lobotomies.
(c) Leeching.
(d) Maggot therapy.

11. Why do the plague flagellants hit themselves?
(a) The think it will cure the plague on the city by their sacrifice.
(b) They want to feel their pain, not the pain of the city.
(c) They want to take the plague on themselves to cure others.
(d) They think it will stop them from becoming sick.

12. What happens to Katherine during the birth of the baby?
(a) She begins hallucinating.
(b) She goes into a coma.
(c) She realizes that she hates Merivel.
(d) She loses her sight.

13. What does Merivel feel for Katherine?
(a) Anger.
(b) Pity.
(c) Love.
(d) Hatred.

14. What natural alternative treatments does Merivel think of for extracting fluids?
(a) Sweating and pissing.
(b) Sweating and weeping.
(c) Vomitting and weeping.
(d) Pissing and vomiting.

15. Who does Merivel mistake for his mother?
(a) A haberdasher's wife.
(b) A barmaid.
(c) A servant of the King's.
(d) A shop owner.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Merivel's old friend greet him?

2. How does Katherine feel about Merivel?

3. What calms Katherine down?

4. What does Merivel do to help Katherine fall asleep?

5. What do the men in the George Fox building make?

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