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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Abbot suggest to Merewyn regarding her question?
(a) She talk to Brother Finian who lives in one of the cells halfway up the Tor.
(b) She doesn't deserve to know where Rumon is.
(c) She leave the Abbey at once.
(d) She go elsewhere for the information.

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

3. What has happened to Merewyn since she was taken by the Vikings?
(a) She has gone on a hunger strike.
(b) She has yet to speak to her captors.
(c) She has married and has a 15-month-old son.
(d) She has escaped into the wilderness of Iceland.

4. What year is it at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) The same years as Merewyn was taken.
(b) 984.
(c) 1000.
(d) 982.

5. What did Rumon decide to do once he heard the news that Merewyn was taken by the Vikings?
(a) Follow the Viking ship and bring Merewyn home.
(b) Kill Poldu for not stopping the Vikings from taking Merewyn.
(c) Consult with the Archbishop to figure out what to do.
(d) Go back to the Abbey, broken-hearted.

6. What does Merewyn do to avoid Rumon after what happens at twilight on the top of the Tor?
(a) She rouses her servants at three in the morning and leaves.
(b) She prays fervently in the church.
(c) She locks herself in her room and refuses to come out.
(d) She dons a nun's habit and hides among them.

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

8. What is Rumon doing at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) He and Merewyn are being married.
(b) He is working in the garden, having given up hope of ever finding Merewyn.
(c) He is telling his grandchildren the story of how he found Merewyn, their grandmother.
(d) He and Brother Finian continue their journey to find Merewyn.

9. What commands does Leif present to the people when he arrives at the feast?
(a) The people of Greenland must raise more sheep.
(b) The King of Norway wants everyone baptized right away.
(c) The people of Greenland must return to Iceland.
(d) The people of Greenland must stop going after Vikings.

10. Who asks to join King Sweyn?
(a) Erik the Red.
(b) Orm.
(c) Canute.
(d) Ketil.

11. How does Merewyn react to what Rumon tells her when they sit down at twilight?
(a) She accepts his offer and goes with him to the tower.
(b) She is horrified that he would think that she is good enough to bed but not to wed.
(c) She cries with sadness that her aunt is not there.
(d) She cries with joy.

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

13. What does the Abbot think Merewyn and her group want?
(a) Food.
(b) Charity.
(c) Lodging for the night.
(d) Information.

14. What does Sigurd think about Christianity?
(a) He wants to be baptized.
(b) He is forbidden to convert.
(c) He doesn't understand it.
(d) It turns men into weak women.

15. Who leads the Viking attacks?
(a) Erik the Red.
(b) Ketil.
(c) King Sweyn and his son Canute of Denmark.
(d) Orm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sigurd?

2. What does Orm ask Merewyn about after she and her party walk over the Mendip Mountains?

3. Where do Ketil and his group arrive when Rumon has been gone a fortnight?

4. What does the Abbess speak of to the nuns during the interviews?

5. Who's commands does Leif present to the people when he arrives at the feast?

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