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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the Viking ships not go ashore and attack the Abbey?
(a) They lose their way.
(b) The severe storm sinks the Vikings.
(c) They are stopped by English fighters.
(d) They take thunder and a bolt of lightening as a sign that Thor is angry.

2. Who did King Edgar marry instead?
(a) Arles.
(b) Eneda, the daughter of another Earl.
(c) Alfrida.
(d) Ordgara.

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 they check her pulse.
(d) Because she is not breathing.

4. Who kneels throughout Edward's requiem mass in black homespun clothes?
(a) Alfhere.
(b) Rumon.
(c) Ethelred.
(d) Alfrida.

5. Who does Edward wed?
(a) Ordgara.
(b) Merewyn.
(c) Gunner's sister, Elgifu, daughter to the Earl of Yorkshire.
(d) Edgive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do those whom the King has summoned find when they arrive at Court?

2. Who is the Queen of England?

3. Who are the two main characters?

4. Why does Merewyn leave home?

5. What does Rumon ask Merewyn in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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