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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. What does Philip decide to do with the baby that Francis brought to the monastery?

2. What action does the person take who screamed at the prisoner's death?

3. What angers Philip about the monks right after he arrives at his new assignment?

4. What is the reaction of the young boys toward the prisoner?

5. How does Tom get hired to make repairs on Kingsbridge Cathedral?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What happens when Tom asks the master builder of a cathedral in Salisbury if he can have a job?

3. What is Tom Builder's greatest passion in life?

4. Why does Abbot Peter transfer Prior Philip out of the monastery where he was born and where does he send him?

5. How do Aliena and Richard escape from the castle?

6. Summarize the actions of the townspeople before the hanging takes place.

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

8. Of what is the crime that the condemned man has been found guilty?

9. What does Tom discover when he has a change of heart and goes back to Agnes' grave to get the baby?

10. What events take place when William Hamleigh goes to the castle at Shiring to claim it as his own?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Compare the characters of Aliena and Richard.

2) Which character gives more to their relationship? Explain using examples from the novel.

3) How do their views differ on life, responsibilities, marriage, and duty?

4) Which character is more realistic in his or her view of life? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

1) Analyze Jack's coming of age throughout the novel.

2) What fears and emotions does he experience as he grows from childhood to adulthood?

3) How does his outlook on life, education, and love change as he develops from a boy into a man?

4) Cite examples of Jack's character changes throughout his life.

Essay Topic 3

1) Evaluate the elements of cause and effect in this story using examples from the novel.

2) Choose three events and characters from the story which cause their lives to undergo a change.

3) How do the characters react to the events and their effects?

4) How do they change emotionally, financially, and spiritually because of these events?

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