1. Research the role (and idea) of the witch.

Compare and contrast the role of the witch with that of the Forestwife.

2. Does Mary change as the novel progresses? What experiences does she have that may have changed her?

3. Theresa Tomlinson spends a long time describing how Mary and the others will trap the deer. Is this description accurate? What research into hunting (or personal experience with hunting) helps you to know that?

4. At both the opening and in the conclusion of The Forestwife Mary makes a choice against marriage. Even though the choices are the same, they are made for very different reasons? What are those reasons?

5. Do some research into the lifestyle and expectations of nuns and abbeys. Do the nuns of today still live and practice the same way they did in Richard I's England?

6. What were the...