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)

5. The Holy Nail (Chapter 17)

Short Answer

1. They killed innocent Hospitaliers, the religious doctors who tend to those injured in war. (Chapter 10)

2. He will have the knights take the children to Saint-Denis to speak with Abbot Hubert. (Chapter 11)

3. He stays behind to head off Michelangelo, who is chasing the children. (Chapter 13)

4. His friend returned from the dead as a ghost and warned him about the horrors of hell. (Chapter 14)

5. Jeanne realizes that the young, handsome man is just a decoy to protect the real king. (Chapter 16)

Chapters 18-27

Reading Check

1. A university (Chapter 20)

2. Michelangelo (Chapter 21)

3. Job (Chapter 23)

4. Papal inquisitor (Chapter 24)

5. The king’s mother (Chapter 26)

Short Answer

1. Louis says that even though he does not like his Jewish subjects, protecting them is still his duty. (Chapter 18)

2. She does not think that it is right to fake a prophecy. (Chapter 19)

3. They want to find the donkey they left there because they realize that a Talmud may be among the books it carried. (Chapter 22)

4. The tides cover the road they need to take each night. (Chapter 25)

5. He hints that she may be either God or the Devil in human form. (Chapter 27)