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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Alfrida not want Ethelred to attend Edward's coronation?
(a) Because she believes Ethelred should be King.
(b) Because Ethelred is angry at his brother.
(c) Because she believes it would be an insult to Edward.
(d) Because she has been snubbed.

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

3. Why did the King dispatch Earl Athelwald of East Anglia to do?
(a) Bring an important message to Queen Edgive.
(b) Visit the daughter of Earl Ordgar on his behalf and report back her looks and behavior.
(c) Fight the Vikings.
(d) Murder Rumon.

4. Who celebrates Edward's requiem mass?
(a) Bishop Ethelwold alone.
(b) There is no mass. Edward is buried quickly.
(c) Dunstan and Bishop Ethelwold.
(d) Archbishop Dunstan alone.

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

6. How does Rumon react to the appearance of the Queen?
(a) He is appaled by her clothing.
(b) He is sickened.
(c) He is proud to see her.
(d) He is struck by her beauty.

7. The novel follows the history of England's raids by whom?
(a) The Vikings.
(b) The Normans.
(c) The Celts.
(d) The Saxons.

8. What does Rumon try to get from the monks?
(a) The deed to the land that they stole from him.
(b) Some sort of aid for the house of Uther.
(c) A blessing.
(d) All their gold.

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

10. What does Merewyn receive from Rumon in Chapter 7?
(a) A castle.
(b) A deed to land in France.
(c) A marriage proposal.
(d) A letter.

11. At the beginning of Chapter 7, where is Merewyn living?
(a) At Glastonbury Abbey.
(b) With Alfrida.
(c) At Uther.
(d) With her aunt, the Abbess Merwinna at Romsey.

12. What does Rumon feel responsible for?
(a) The child Merewyn bore him.
(b) The pain Merwyn has suffered since she left Alfrida.
(c) Dunstan's death.
(d) The death of King Edward.

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

14. Who presents Rumon to the King?
(a) Queen Edgive.
(b) Merewyn.
(c) Queen Alfrida.
(d) Archbishop Dunstan.

15. What does the Prior tell Rumon about Merewyn?
(a) That she is descended from royal blood as she claims to be.
(b) That she is his illigitimate daughter.
(c) That she is a witch.
(d) That she is of Viking descent.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Rumon meets Breaca of Uther, what does he notices?

2. What other name is Romieux de Provence known by?

3. Why do Rumon and Merewyn suspect that Merewyn's mother is dead?

4. What does King Edward ask Alfrida through Gunner?

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

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