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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Alfrida do to surprise Edward shortly after Yuletide passes?
(a) She accepts the invitation to his upcoming wedding.
(b) She tells him that she has always secretly loved him.
(c) She tell him that she is going to the convent.
(d) She apologizes for not treating him properly when she became his stemother.

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

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

8. What does Alfrida do to surprise Rumon shortly after Yuletide passes?
(a) She finally agrees to marry him.
(b) She tells him that she is going to the convent.
(c) She tells him she apologized to Edward.
(d) She tells him she is pregnant with his child.

9. Where is Rumon headed when he meets Merewyn?
(a) To the monks.
(b) Home.
(c) To see his grandmother.
(d) To Court.

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

11. Who does the Prior think Rumon is when the Prior first meets him?
(a) His illigitimate son.
(b) A generous benefactor.
(c) His youngest brother.
(d) A spy.

12. Why does Rumon leave Alfrida's castle at noon and return to his own lodgings?
(a) To pack his things for his trip to Ireland.
(b) To don his best clothes in anticipation of his betrothal announcement to the King.
(c) To nap before the big party.
(d) To reflect upon his good fortune.

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

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

15. What did Athelwald tell the King about Earl Ordgar's daughter?
(a) She was already married and with child.
(b) The girl was skinny, pock marked, ill mannered and altogether unsuitable for a King.
(c) She refused to see him.
(d) The girl was the most beautiful and most gracious he had ever encountered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the King tell Merewyn?

2. How does the Queen react to the King's decision as to whom he has chosen to succeed him?

3. Does Rumon drink the second poison?

4. Who is Breaca?

5. What kind of story is "Avalon?"

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