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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does King Ethelred decide to solve the problem of the Viking attacks?
(a) He has his Thanes set fire to the Viking ships.
(b) He offers his youngest daughter to Canute in marriage.
(c) He has his Thanes slaughter the Vikings.
(d) He decides to pay Sweyn to stop attacking England.

2. Ketil rides around on his horse looking for whom at "Logberg"?
(a) Rumon.
(b) Orm.
(c) Brattalid.
(d) Erik the Red.

3. What does Merewyn tell the Abbot she wants?
(a) Charity.
(b) Food.
(c) Lodging for the night.
(d) Information.

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

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

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

7. What does Orm ask Merewyn about after she and her party walk over the Mendip Mountains?
(a) The girl he hopes to marry.
(b) Her life before she was in Iceland.
(c) The English language.
(d) The Tor and St. Michael's tower.

8. What does Erik the Red have for his son?
(a) A dog.
(b) Treasure.
(c) A great feast.
(d) A wife.

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

10. What does Rumon offer to do for Merewyn when he meets her at the place where she has taken her aunt's heart?
(a) Take her home to Uther.
(b) Marry her.
(c) Help her bury the heart.
(d) Guide her up the Tor that evening

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

12. Why does Queen Elgifu need constant nursing?
(a) She was hurt in a riding accident.
(b) She was attacked in the last Viking attack.
(c) She delivers a still born baby, and afterward simply deteriorates.
(d) She has a deadly illness.

13. What does Ketil call Merewyn?
(a) Dottir.
(b) The Captive.
(c) The English Woman.
(d) The Slave.

14. How does Rumon react to Poldu's news that Merewyn was taken by the Vikings?
(a) He drops to his knees and prays for her protection.
(b) He is angry that Poldu didn't stop them.
(c) He is devastated.
(d) He cries terribly.

15. What does Orm try out as with King Sweyn's men?
(a) A Thane for King Ethelred.
(b) A huntsmen for Wulfric.
(c) A steersman on one of the long Viking ships.
(d) A captain of a small Viking ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes ill when Ketil goes down to the naust for his daily walk to the Bylgja?

2. What does Odo use to purchase things for Merewyn?

3. Who's hand in marriage does King Ethelred ask for?

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

5. Who does King Sweyn leave behind in England?

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