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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. Why is Godefroi hesitant to travel?
(a) A monk said he will die if he leaves Sarum.
(b) He is in love with the butcher's daughter.
(c) He cannot find reliable maps.
(d) He believes the country is on the verge of civil war.

2. Where does Nicholas go after leaving the sheep house?
(a) The nunnery.
(b) The city.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Stonehenge.

3. What two tribes revolt against the Romans in 60 A.D.?
(a) The Icene and the Trinovantes.
(b) The Saxons and the Angles.
(c) The Picts and the Vandals.
(d) The Cherokee and the Comanche.

4. Whom does Alicia marry?
(a) John Godfroi.
(b) Forest Wilson.
(c) Peter Shockley.
(d) Adam Mason.

5. When is Osmund admitted to the mason guild?
(a) 1248.
(b) 1720.
(c) 1215.
(d) 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must Tep leave the camp after three years?

2. Who arrives to fight Petrus and the German mercenaries?

3. How many years before the birth of Christ, or the Common Era (C.E.), does the novel open?

4. In what year does Thomas de Godefroi go to war?

5. Who is chosen to build the new Stonehenge?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Nicholas live in the city instead of with his Aunt Agnes at the sheep house?

2. Why is Godric hanged even after his uncle pays a bribe?

3. How does Osmund's admission to the mason guild not go as planned.

4. How did the practice of farming come to England?

5. What connection do rats and fleas have to the Black Death?

6. What are some examples of quarrels between women disturbing the peace.

7. Why does Petrus's father have Petrus imprisoned?

8. What is the source of the disagreement between Petrus and his father early in the chapter?

9. Why does Godefroi ask John of Shockley to take his wife and children away?

10. Why do both church and state government need each other at this time?

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