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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Merewyn leave home?
(a) To be married.
(b) To visit her sister at the convent.
(c) To go to the King's Court.
(d) She is making a pilgrimage to St. Gundred's Well at Roche.

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

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

4. In what year does the story begin?
(a) 973.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1873.
(d) 100

5. Why is Rumon lost?
(a) Because his map is wrong.
(b) Because he has a bad sense of direction.
(c) Because he was shipwrecked.
(d) Because his guides abandoned him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Breaca of Uther tell Rumon about the monks?

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

3. What did Dunstan attempt to do?

4. Who are the two main characters?

5. What kind of story is "Avalon?"

(see the answer key)

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