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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Poldu remain alive after the attack?
(a) He hid from the Vikings.
(b) He killed the chief Viking.
(c) He spoke up, asking the chief if he was such a beast that he would rape his own daughter.
(d) He fought back.

2. What does King Ethelred do while the Vikings attack England?
(a) He has magnificent feasts.
(b) He fights back.
(c) He hides.
(d) He wallows in self pity and drunkenness.

3. Who does Merewyn see coming up the road on horseback as she waves good-bye to Asgerd?
(a) Rumon and Jorund, his companion.
(b) Ketil.
(c) Sigurd.
(d) Asgerd.

4. What does Rumon realize when he sees Merewyn at the place where she has taken her aunt's heart?
(a) He is lost.
(b) He has been a fool.
(c) Merewyn has never been far from his thoughts.
(d) Merewyn's aunt is dead.

5. What does Rumon tell Merewyn when they sit down at twilight?
(a) He must go.
(b) He wants her.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He wants to marry her.

6. When does the Abbess interview the nuns?
(a) During her lengthy recovery.
(b) Right away.
(c) After the Vikings were defeated.
(d) Soon after the Abbey is destroyed.

7. Why is Merewyn excited after she and her party walk over the Medip Mountains?
(a) She is exicted to tell her children about the area in which she grew up.
(b) She is excited to be at Glastonbury and to find Rumon.
(c) She is excited to finally be over the mountains.
(d) She is excited to be home.

8. When do Finian and Rumon first sense that something is wrong on their journey to find Merewyn?
(a) When they reach the church.
(b) When they reach Tre-Uther.
(c) When they come across a burned shop.
(d) When they reach the Camel River.

9. How long does it take the ships to get to the land Erik speaks of?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 10 days.
(c) 1 month.
(d) Only four or five days sailing.

10. When does Merewyn become an official lady-in-waiting to Queen Elgifu?
(a) The year 1000.
(b) The year 999.
(c) The year 1002.
(d) The year 1005.

11. What is working its way through the Western Settlement in Greenland?
(a) A famine.
(b) Marauders.
(c) Bad weather.
(d) A sickness.

12. Where do Ketil and his group arrive when Rumon has been gone a fortnight?
(a) Thingvellir.
(b) Brattalid.
(c) Reykjavik.
(d) Greenland.

13. How does Orm accept the proper protocol when he meets the Abbot of Glastonbury?
(a) Orm complains.
(b) Orm sulks at the idea.
(c) Orm refuses.
(d) Orm does what he is told without question.

14. What does Merewyn want for Orm in England?
(a) An education.
(b) A dog.
(c) A position of Thane.
(d) A wife.

15. Who dies after a prolonged illness that causes terrible stomach pain?
(a) Leif Erikson.
(b) Orm.
(c) Sigurd.
(d) Ketil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is found dead after Rumon and Finian see that Tre-Uther is burned?

2. Who asks to join King Sweyn?

3. Where does Ketil die?

4. How does King Ethelred decide to solve the problem of the Viking attacks?

5. Who is Thorbjorg?

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