The Inquisitor’s Tale

Prologue-Chapter 8

Reading Check

1. Marie (Prologue)

2. Gwenforte (Chapter 1)

3. Old Jerome/the Monastery librarian (Chapter 3)

4. His donkey’s leg (Chapter 5)

5. Sir Fabian (Chapter 7)

Short Answer

1. She predicts that a giant will come and take Old Teresa away. (Chapter 1)

2. The nun tells the story from Jeanne’s perspective, but Marie thinks the nun cannot know what Jeanne experienced. (Chapter 2)

3. There are bandits in the forest (the Foul Fiends), and because William is a monk, he can only fight with “flesh and bone.” (Chapter 4)

4. Jacob is Jewish, and when a group of Christian peasants comes to burn down the Jewish quarter of town, his parents send him to escape into the night. (Chapter 6)

5. The boy asks for ale, but the narrator agrees to buy him dinner instead. (Chapter 8)

Chapters 9-17

Reading Check

1. At the market (Chapter 9)

2. Judaism (Chapter 10)

3. Cheese (Chapter 12)

4. His head (Chapter 15)

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