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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does King Ethelred decide to solve the problem of the Viking attacks?
(a) He has his Thanes slaughter the Vikings.
(b) He offers his youngest daughter to Canute in marriage.
(c) He has his Thanes set fire to the Viking ships.
(d) He decides to pay Sweyn to stop attacking England.

2. What does Rumon's vision convince him of?
(a) That he should enter the monastery.
(b) That he is on the path of his quest.
(c) That he will one day be King.
(d) That he is making a mistake.

3. What does King Ethelred do while the Vikings attack England?
(a) He fights back.
(b) He wallows in self pity and drunkenness.
(c) He has magnificent feasts.
(d) He hides.

4. What does Athelwald do after his report to the King?
(a) He is killed in battle with the Vikings.
(b) He asks the King's permission to marry the princess.
(c) He returns to Court and becomes the King's closest adviser.
(d) He disappears from Court and marries Ordgar's daughter himself.

5. What does Rumon try to get from the monks?
(a) Some sort of aid for the house of Uther.
(b) All their gold.
(c) A blessing.
(d) The deed to the land that they stole from him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news comes to Merewyn from the castle in March?

2. What is the name of Earl Ordgar's daughter?

3. What did Merewyn ask of her husband and father-in-law, Ketil?

4. Who manipulates the council into wanting to crown King Edgar's choice?

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

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