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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Queen Alfrida lose her status at Court?
(a) Because she is not a blood relation to Edward.
(b) Because she has already remarried.
(c) Because she treated Edward badly.
(d) Because she did not support his coronation.

2. What happened to Breaca's family during the Viking attack?
(a) They were kidnapped by the Vikings.
(b) Most were slaughtered.
(c) They were saved by the monks.
(d) Their crops were ruined.

3. How does Merewyn react to Rumon's betrothal?
(a) By telling him she's very happy for him.
(b) By sobbing.
(c) By telling him he is either mad or bewitched - or both.
(d) By telling him that she is in love with him.

4. When Rumon meets Breaca of Uther, what does he notices?
(a) That she is dying.
(b) That she is dead.
(c) That she has only one leg.
(d) That she is in failing health.

5. What is mixed into Rumon's draught?
(a) Hemlock.
(b) Nightshade.
(c) Rat poison.
(d) Arsenic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rumon leave Alfrida's castle at noon and return to his own lodgings?

2. How does Rumon differentiate the Prior from the other monks?

3. Who colonized Greenland?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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