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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Sigurd think about Christianity?
2. How does Merewyn feel toward Elgifu?
3. What does Orm ask Merewyn about after she and her party walk over the Mendip Mountains?
4. Who leads the Viking attacks?
5. Who sails into Greenland in June of 1000?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Ethelred like in the year 1002?
2. When Finian and Rumon went up to the monastery, what did the prior, Poldu, say happened to Merewyn during the Viking raid?
3. How did Ketil react to Merewyn's plea for him not to go a-viking anymore?
4. When Brother Finian told Rumon that he smelled smoke as they came to the broad estuary of the Camel River in their search for Merewyn, how did Rumon respond to Finian?
5. What did Orm feel for his mother once Orm sold the Bylgia to the Bristol Thane, Odo?
6. How did Brother Finian and Rumon find out that the smoke Finian smelled was really a Viking attack?
7. Where was Merewyn's interview and what was Merewyn doing with Abbess Merwinna when the Abbess told Merewyn that she couldn't be accepted into the novitiate?
8. How did Bishop Ethelwold reply to Merewyn when she asked him where she should go upon her return from her journey to bury the Abbess' heart at St. Petroc's?
9. How does Merewyn's mother-in-law, Asgerd feel about Merewyn?
10. How did Ketil dress on his way to the Allthing, two weeks after Rumon left Iceland?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the passionate emotion that is communicated in "Avalon?" Why was Seton moved to write? What is the thing that the Seton had to communicate? Explain Seton's motivating emotion and how it is explored in "Avalon?"
Essay Topic 2
The dove motif appears several times in "Avalon." Why is the dove used in the story? How does it relate to those particular scenes in the novel? How is it important to the overall theme or plot?
Essay Topic 3
Explain how and why the ending of "Avalon" appropriately or inappropriately concluded the story. Did the ending of "Avalon" provide the reader with a significant closure or did it merely end? Does the reader have to adjust to ambiguity or uncertainty or does "Avalon" satisfy the reader need to know what happens to Merewyn and Rumon?
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