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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Athelwald tell the King about Earl Ordgar's daughter?
(a) The girl was the most beautiful and most gracious he had ever encountered.
(b) She was already married and with child.
(c) She refused to see him.
(d) The girl was skinny, pock marked, ill mannered and altogether unsuitable for a King.

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

3. Why do Rumon and Merewyn suspect that Merewyn's mother is dead?
(a) Because they find her with a knife stuck in her chest.
(b) Because they see no smoke rising from the chimney.
(c) Because she is not breathing.
(d) Because they check her pulse.

4. Who is Breaca?
(a) Merewyn's mother.
(b) Rumon's aunt.
(c) Rumon's mother.
(d) Merewyn's sister.

5. How does Rumon differentiate the Prior from the other monks?
(a) The Prior is the fattest.
(b) The Prior introduces himself immediately.
(c) The Prior is the one in deepest prayer.
(d) Ruman can't tell the Prior from the other monks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of story is "Avalon?"

2. How long ago did the King dispatch Earl Athelwald of East Anglia?

3. Who is the Queen of England?

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

5. Who did King Edgar marry instead?

(see the answer key)

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