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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Alfrida do when she realizes Rumon hasn't drunk the poison?
(a) She get Cild to help her poison him a second time.
(b) She reacts in a rage and hits Rumon.
(c) She knocks him out with a huge candlestick.
(d) She abandons her plan.

3. Who colonized Greenland?
(a) Rumon.
(b) Lief Ericson.
(c) Langarfoss.
(d) Eric the Red.

4. Who are the two main characters?
(a) Queen Edgive of Arles and King Edgar of England.
(b) Gundred of Roche and Breaca of Uther.
(c) Merewyn of Uther and Romieux de Provence.
(d) Caw and Trig.

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

6. How does Court refer to Alfrida after King Edgar dies?
(a) The former Queen.
(b) The Witch.
(c) They don't refer to her as anything because they do not acknowledge her.
(d) Old Lady.

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

8. What kind of story is "Avalon?"
(a) A biographical story.
(b) An epic story.
(c) A historic story.
(d) An autobiographical story.

9. Why is Gunnar disgusted when he goes to the Abbey?
(a) He is feared by the sisters.
(b) He can't believe that he has found Merewyn in an abbey.
(c) He was treated badly by Alfrida.
(d) Because his sister, Elgifu, who was Edward's wife, is being given to Ethelred.

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

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

12. When Merewyn sees Gunnar Thoredsson at the Abbey, how does he look?
(a) He looks tired and sad.
(b) He has a beard that ages him slightly and the devotion that was once in his eyes is gone.
(c) He looks as if demons have possessed him.
(d) He looks sick and angry.

13. What did the monks do when the Vikings attacked?
(a) They supplied weapons to the people to fight back.
(b) They hid Breaca and her family.
(c) They fought alongside Breaca and her family.
(d) They hid.

14. What did Dunstan attempt to do?
(a) Marry Merewyn.
(b) Lead the Viking raids.
(c) Care for plague victims.
(d) Bring the masses to a Christian life.

15. Who is the Queen of England?
(a) Queen Dunstana.
(b) Queen Alfrida.
(c) Queen Edgive.
(d) Queen Eneda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rumon say he wants to take Alfrida?

2. What does Rumon try to get from the monks?

3. Where does Rumon take the Queen after the King's death?

4. What announcement does Alfrida want to make at dinner that evening after Yuletide?

5. Who sent Rumon to Glastonbury Abbey?

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