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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: 1142 - 1145.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impresses Tom about Ellen's son, Jack?
(a) He is able to hunt ducks with a stone and a sling.
(b) He has impeccable social graces.
(c) He offers the guests food before taking any for himself.
(d) He gives Tom's family his portion of food

2. What does Alfred reveal to Jack that infuriates him?
(a) His father was hanged as a thief.
(b) Ellen is not his real mother.
(c) Tom doesn't care about him.
(d) Martha despises him.

3. What does Prior Philip have the monks do when they go to the quarry?
(a) They pray for the safety of the men.
(b) They bless the quarrymen.
(c) They mine the stone.
(d) They light candles and begin to sing holy songs.

4. What do Tom and Agnes do when they locate the thief that robbed them
(a) They have the sheriff arrest him.
(b) They wrestle him to the ground and he returns what he had stolen.
(c) They run away from him.
(d) They follow him and Tom kills him in a struggle.

5. How does Tom get hired to make repairs on Kingsbridge Cathedral?
(a) He wins a bid against another stonemason.
(b) He sets the cathedral on fire, hoping to get the job to repair it.
(c) Jack sets the cathedral on fire and Tom proposes a plan to the Prior for repairs.
(d) He begs the prior for the job.

Short Answer Questions

1. When William asks King Stephen for the earldom, who is also there saying he should be the earl?

2. Why is Jack happy about living in Kingsbridge despite Alfred's abuse?

3. What news does a page bring to William while he is fighting in the civil war between Maud and Stephen?

4. What does the condemned man look like?

5. What is Philip's only hope that the Kingsbridge Cathedral will be completed?

(see the answer key)

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