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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. How many men show up to work on the cathedral?
(a) 25
(b) 1000
(c) 500
(d) 100

2. To where does Abbot Peter transfer Prior Philip?
(a) St-John-of-the-Forest
(b) Salisbury
(c) Shiring
(d) St. Michael's

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

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

5. What horrifies Philip when he first sees Kingsbridge?
(a) Cruelty and torture
(b) Poverty
(c) The collapsed cathedral
(d) Ruin and disrepair

Short Answer Questions

1. What transpires when Tom and his quarrymen arrive at the quarry to start getting stone?

2. Who does the prisoner look at while he stands on the gallows?

3. Who is the master quarryman that Tom hires?

4. What is Agnes' condition after the birth?

5. What does King Stephen decide about the ownership of the Shiring quarry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the plan Philip devises to get more work done on the cathedral before the visit from Bishop Henry.

2. Describe the condemned man's appearance.

3. Describe how Tom is hired to begin repairs of Kingsbridge Cathedral and what is the condition Philip sets about Ellen?

4. What is the deal that Archdeacon Waleran makes with Philip after the death of Prior James, the Prior of Kingsbridge?

5. 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?

6. When the condemned man dies, what is the reaction of the young pregnant girl to whom he was singing?

7. Describe the business that Aliena begins when she gets the money her father left for her and Richard with a priest in Winchester?

8. 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?

9. Who is riding behind the oxcart that brings the condemned man to the gallows?

10. Why does Lord William Hamleigh fire Tom from the job of building him a house?

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