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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Earl Ordgar's daughter?
(a) Eneda.
(b) Ordgara.
(c) Arles.
(d) Alfrida.

2. Who is the King of England?
(a) King Athelwald.
(b) King Arthur.
(c) King Edgar.
(d) King Dunstan.

3. What did Athelwald tell the King about Earl Ordgar's daughter?
(a) The girl was the most beautiful and most gracious he had ever encountered.
(b) The girl was skinny, pock marked, ill mannered and altogether unsuitable for a King.
(c) She was already married and with child.
(d) She refused to see him.

4. What did Dunstan attempt to do?
(a) Bring the masses to a Christian life.
(b) Care for plague victims.
(c) Marry Merewyn.
(d) Lead the Viking raids.

5. What is Breaca's dying wish?
(a) That Merewyn be married to Rumon.
(b) That Merwyn be named to the King's Court.
(c) That Merewyn be told the truth of her identity.
(d) That Merewyn be taken to her aunt, Uther's sister, in Shaftsbury.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the story begin?

2. The novel follows the history of England's raids by whom?

3. What did the monks do when the Vikings attacked?

4. How does Rumon differentiate the Prior from the other monks?

5. Why did the King dispatch Earl Athelwald of East Anglia to do?

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