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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 has been snubbed.
(d) Because she believes it would be an insult to Edward.

2. Where does Rumon say he wants to take Alfrida?
(a) He want to take her to Court.
(b) He wants to take her to his bed.
(c) He wants to take her to the convent.
(d) Away from her dreary castle and maybe to Ireland.

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

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

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

6. What does Merewyn hope her prayers will accomplish?
(a) They will help her find her way back home.
(b) They will reveal her true love.
(c) They will cure her of her ailments.
(d) They will help her ailing mother

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

8. Who is Gunner?
(a) One of the members of the Council.
(b) Queen Alfrida's new husband.
(c) King Edward's body Thane.
(d) King Edward's brother-in-law.

9. What other name is Romieux de Provence known by?
(a) King Edgar.
(b) Robert of Provence.
(c) Rumon.
(d) Romulan.

10. What do those whom the King has summoned find when they arrive at Court?
(a) That the King is getting married.
(b) That the King has had just had a male heir.
(c) That the castle was being attacked by Vikings.
(d) That the King is dying.

11. What does the King tell Merewyn?
(a) That she must leave the Court immediately, never to return.
(b) That she is his long lost daughter and should be crowned as such the following day.
(c) That she is welcome and will be treated in a manner that befits the last of the line of King Arthur.
(d) That she is forbidden to travel alone with a man and should be punished.

12. Where does Rumon take the Queen after the King's death?
(a) To the royal garden.
(b) To his room.
(c) Back to her bower.
(d) To the chapel to pray.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago did the King dispatch Earl Athelwald of East Anglia?

2. What is Breaca's dying wish?

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

4. What does Alfrida do to surprise Rumon shortly after Yuletide passes?

5. What does Rumon's vision convince him of?

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