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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. How long does it take to walk to the next settlement from where Axl and Beatrice live?

2. What color tunics do the soldiers wear in Chapter 5?

3. Under what type of tree is a knight seated that Axl, Beatrice, Wistan, and Edwin meet on the road in a clearing in Chapter 5?

4. How many Norsemen does a solider say have fallen by Wistan's hand?

5. In Chapter 5, what does Beatrice think was in their dwelling after they lost their candle?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what is the villa like where Beatrice and Axl take shelter?

2. In Chapter 3, who rescues Axl and Beatrice from a mob?

3. In Chapter 3, what does Beatrice see at the gate, and how is that different from when she was at the Saxon village before?

4. Who does Axl remember in Chapter 1 that no one else seems to remember?

5. At the end of Chapter 1, how does Beatrice think they will find their son's village?

6. In Chapter 4, what does Edwin remember about being a prisoner of the ogres?

7. In Chapter 5, what roles do Wistan and Edwin assume when they meet soldiers at a bridge?

8. What mission do Gawain and Wistan share?

9. What does Edwin hear her mother telling him to do in Chapter 4?

10. What does Wisan want Axl and Beatrice to do in Chapter 3 and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Beatrice and Axl arrive at the Saxon village, they sense an atmosphere of fear. Why is there an atmosphere of fear in the Saxon village? What are the effect of that fear on the behavior of the villagers?

Essay Topic 2

Wistan has a feeling of danger at the monastery. What are premonitions? What characters have premonitions? How do those premonitions come to pass? How do premonitions affect characters and their survival?

Essay Topic 3

There seems to be a universal loss of memory of the people in the novel. What causes this amnesia? What was the purpose of the mist? Did the mist serve its purpose?

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