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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ketil think of Erik's news?
(a) Ketil doesn't believe what Erik tells him.
(b) He is so enthusiastic as he describes this place that Ketil is already dreaming of a new home called Ketilsfjord, with miles of free land.
(c) Ketil is bored with it.
(d) Ketil believes it is dangerous.

2. What did Merewyn ask of her husband and father-in-law, Ketil?
(a) If she could go home to England.
(b) Not to leave her alone in the house at night.
(c) Not to go a-viking anymore.
(d) To help her raise her sister.

3. What does Bishop Ethelwold do when he returns to the Abbey in October?
(a) He celebrates a special mass of thanks.
(b) He hears final vows from Elfled and four others.
(c) He chastises the Abbess for making herself sick.
(d) He expels two nuns for their lack of courage.

4. What kind of a ruler is Ethelred?
(a) Feared.
(b) Courageous.
(c) Ineffective.
(d) Beloved.

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

6. What does Merewyn ask the Abbess while the Bishop is at the Abby?
(a) Merewyn asks if she may leave the Abbey.
(b) Merewyn asks if she may go back to Uther.
(c) Merewyn asks the Abbess permission to enter the nunnery.
(d) Merewyn asks if she may marry.

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

8. Who do Rumon and Finian find at the church?
(a) Only the prior, Poldu.
(b) Alfrida.
(c) Merewyn.
(d) The Vikings.

9. Where does Merewyn take her aunt's heart after her aunt dies?
(a) To the crypt in the Abbey.
(b) To the grave of King Arthur.
(c) To the King.
(d) To Uther.

10. Why are Sigurd, Merewyn, and Orm disappointed when round the cape?
(a) They see nothing but ice.
(b) They see grassland, but no trees are in sight.
(c) They had lost so many on the voyage.
(d) They miss their home in Iceland.

11. Why does the chief Viking order Merewyn to be taken to his ship?
(a) He will kill Merewyn at sea.
(b) He needs another house servant in his homeland.
(c) He wants to marry Merewyn in his homeland.
(d) Because Poldu tells the chief Viking that Merewyn is his daughter.

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

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

14. Who's hand in marriage does King Ethelred ask for?
(a) Emma, the Duke of Normandy's sister.
(b) The oldest daughter of the Duke of Somerset.
(c) Merewyn's.
(d) Thora's.

15. 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 cries with joy.
(c) She is horrified that he would think that she is good enough to bed but not to wed.
(d) She cries with sadness that her aunt is not there.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rumon react to Poldu's news that Merewyn was taken by the Vikings?

2. How does Orm accept the proper protocol when he meets the Abbot of Glastonbury?

3. What does Merewyn want for Orm in England?

4. What is Rumon doing at the beginning of Chapter 9?

5. How long is it since the Viking raid at the beginning of Chapter 10?

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