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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 new name does Tosutigus earn?

2. Why is Caius Porteus ordered to destroy a village?

3. Where were Krona's sons killed?

4. In what year does "The Foundling" open?

5. Porteus wants to use his money ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the marriage between Porteus and Tosutigus's daughter fail?

2. How does the king raising taxes on Jews affect Godefroi and Shockley's loan?

3. How does the practice of tomb building begin in the region of Stonehenge?

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

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

6. How does William Shockley get news about situations in places far from home?

7. Why must the King of France settle a dispute in England?

8. Why does Dluc tell Krona that they must sacrifice Krona's firstborn?

9. What sort of economic arrangement do the farmers and hunters make concerning pelts?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The chapter beginning in the year 1244 is titled "The Foundling." Why does the chapter have this title, and how is this a fitting title?

Essay Topic 2

Covering thousands of years, the novel mentions many specific historical events. Does the huge scope of the novel in terms of centuries and millennia make the human enacted events such as wars seem more or less significant?

Essay Topic 3

Pick one of the major themes of the novel Sarum and build an argument stating that one specific theme was the most powerful force in shaping lives over the course of the centuries.

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