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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. Who threatens to punish the women if they disturb the peace again?

2. Hwll and his family reach the estuary of what river?

3. Who is the ruling chief?

4. What happens to the monks in the Viking attack of 878?

5. Who is appointed governor of Britannia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What religious secret does Petrus conceal?

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

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

4. Why does Port announce that he will give a gold cross to the nunnery?

5. What sort of religious compromise do the farmers and hunters reach?

6. Why is Caius Porteus labeled a traitor and sent to Sorviodunum?

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

8. How did the political troubles between the king and the knights begin?

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

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

Some of the author's portrayal of English life is based on documented historical fact, and other parts are based on theories and conjecture. Which parts of the novel do you believe are based on "best guesses"? Do you find these portions of the novel any less entertaining than the parts that are closely based on historical fact?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the setting of the novel Sarum both in terms of geography and moment in history. How crucial is the setting to the story? Could the story presented by the novel have taken place at any other location or time?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the narrator's use of language in the novel Sarum. Is the language elevated to the poetic or is it the everyday language of people of Sarum in their various times in history? Do you find it equally easy to understand characters' language regardless of their time in history?

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