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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. What is the condition of Tom and his family by the time Christmas arrives?
(a) They are happy to be together in a warm cave.
(b) They are doing well because of Tom's new job.
(c) They are healthy and warm in a new home.
(d) They are starving
2. After the death of Bishop James, who does Remingus see as his rival for the post of Prior of Kingsbridge?
(a) Peter of Wareham
(b) Francis
(c) Prior Philip
(d) Waleran
3. Why doesn't the master builder of Salisbury Cathedral hire Tom?
(a) He feels Tom is not qualified.
(b) He has too many masons already.
(c) He is jealous of Tom.
(d) He doesn't like the looks of Tom.
4. Who comes out of the forest to help Martha when she is hit on the head by a robber?
(a) Prior Philip
(b) Ellen and her son, Jack
(c) Aliena
(d) William Hamleigh
5. What type of cathedral does Tom design for Prior Philip?
(a) An ornate, expensive cathedral of grandeur
(b) A stone cathedral with a flat roof and low archways
(c) A simple wooden church with small windows and a low ceiling
(d) A dramatically beautiful church with a lofty nave and large windows
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Waleran Bigod set up a meeting with Prior Philip?
2. What is the language the condemned man speaks?
3. What does King Stephen decide about the ownership of the Shiring quarry?
4. What reaction do the old women have toward the prisoner?
5. What is the condemned man accused of stealing?
Short Essay Questions
1. Of what is the crime that the condemned man has been found guilty?
2. What is the secret compromise that Philip proposes to the Hamleighs about the forests and quarry in Shiring and how does this affect his relationship with Waleran?
3. What does Tom discover when he has a change of heart and goes back to Agnes' grave to get the baby?
4. Describe how Tom is hired to begin repairs of Kingsbridge Cathedral and what is the condition Philip sets about Ellen?
5. Describe the business that Aliena begins when she gets the money her father left for her and Richard with a priest in Winchester?
6. What does Tom ask Ellen after she allows Tom and the children to stay in her cave, giving them food and shelter?
7. What is the favorite pastime of the young boys who gather early in the marketplace?
8. What is the reaction of the townspeople as the man is led to the gallows?
9. What does Prior Philip have the monks of the monastery do when William Hamleigh's men will not let, Tom, the master builder of Kingsbridge, go into the quarry for stone?
10. What is the vow that Aliena's father asks her to make when she and Richard visit him in prison?
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