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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: 1136 - 1137.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Aliena and Richard intend to go after their escape?
(a) To the forest where no one can find them
(b) To Kingsbridge to seek Prior Philip's help
(c) To Winchester to find out where their father is
(d) To Salisbury

2. What do the young men in the marketplace think is lucky for a condemned man?
(a) To hang slowly in the hope of being rescued
(b) To be forgiven by a priest
(c) To break his neck, resulting in a quick death
(d) To have a friend shoot him with an arrow before he hangs

3. Who nudges the sheriff impatiently, wanting to hurry along the hanging?
(a) The bailiff
(b) The priest
(c) The knight
(d) The king

4. Where do Aliena and Richard discover their father is being held?
(a) In the monastery
(b) In a church basement
(c) In a cave
(d) In prison

5. Why do three men ride behind the prisoner?
(a) They recite the prisoner's crime.
(b) They mock the prisoner publicly.
(c) They are his accusers.
(d) They try to keep order.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lord William Hamleigh dismiss Tom and his stonemasons?

2. What do the accusers do as the young man hangs from the noose?

3. How do Richard and Aliena escape the castle?

4. To where does Abbot Peter transfer Prior Philip?

5. What is Prior Philip's biggest problem at his small monastery?

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