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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the shepherd who lives up in the high mountain pass in chapter 2?
(a) Saint Andrew of Scottland.
(b) Seamus the master of the Borey.
(c) Sorley the shepherd of Drumnadrochit.
(d) Manny the shepherd of Orkney.

2. What is the Solan Goose?
(a) Roasted young goose.
(b) Russian duck.
(c) Swedish ship.
(d) Bicycle for two.

3. How is Thorfinn's pet monkey dressed?
(a) Uniform of Norsemen.
(b) Greek costume.
(c) Roman costume.
(d) Uniform of Varingers.

4. What is Jacob Olafson's daughter's name?
(a) Isa.
(b) Sophie.
(c) Smylder.
(d) Janet.

5. What is the village opinion of Miss Cameron?
(a) Bold as brass.
(b) Quiet as a mouse.
(c) Sweet as candy.
(d) Soft as a feather pillow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Olafson's farm?

2. What is Jeremy Smith watching during the school lesson about brochs?

3. Why does Thorfinn miss the great battle at Stirling Castle?

4. What is a sign that the broch is being neglected?

5. Scottish is a fusion of what two languages?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the men of the North treated when they had sailed into the Byzantium empire?

2. What is Mr. Harcourt-Smithers place within the island community?

3. Why is the Battle of Bannockburn so important?

4. In chapter four where does the school teacher, Mr. Simon, take the class?

5. In the Song of the Broch, how does Thorfinn describe the sheltering castle?

6. Why did the invading ship men stop coming to claim land in the Orkney islands?

7. Why does the author call the gathering at the Norday blacksmith shop "the village parliament?"

8. Why is Mr. Simon's lesson on Bannockburn so boring?

9. What are some of the things that village people buy at Isa Estquoy's shop on Norday Island?

10. Why does the school teacher, Mr. Simon, have trouble paying for his groceries at the village shop in Norday?

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