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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Queen react to the King's decision as to whom he has chosen to succeed him?
(a) She stalks out of the room in a rage.
(b) She also gives her blessing.
(c) She is too upset at the King's dying to react.
(d) She is in shock.

2. What does Bishop Ehtelwold donate?
(a) Three hairs of a lock of the Blessed Virgin's.
(b) A piece of the true cross.
(c) Land that belongs to him.
(d) Gold that he has collected.

3. How old was King Edgar?
(a) 23.
(b) 31.
(c) 59.
(d) 40.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Abbess suggest Merewyn to do once her pilgrimage is over?

2. What does Ketil call Merewyn?

3. How long is it since the Viking raid at the beginning of Chapter 10?

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

5. What is Rumon doing at the beginning of Chapter 9?

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