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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the Prior think Rumon is when the Prior first meets him?
(a) A generous benefactor.
(b) His youngest brother.
(c) His illigitimate son.
(d) A spy.

3. What did Dunstan attempt to do?
(a) Bring the masses to a Christian life.
(b) Marry Merewyn.
(c) Lead the Viking raids.
(d) Care for plague victims.

4. What does the King tell Merewyn?
(a) That she is his long lost daughter and should be crowned as such the following day.
(b) That she is welcome and will be treated in a manner that befits the last of the line of King Arthur.
(c) That she must leave the Court immediately, never to return.
(d) That she is forbidden to travel alone with a man and should be punished.

5. Who are the two main characters?
(a) Caw and Trig.
(b) Gundred of Roche and Breaca of Uther.
(c) Queen Edgive of Arles and King Edgar of England.
(d) Merewyn of Uther and Romieux de Provence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Merewyn hope her prayers will accomplish?

3. What does the Prior tell Rumon about Merewyn?

4. What does Breaca make Rumon promise?

5. What is Breaca's dying wish?

(see the answer key)

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