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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Odo purchase from Merewyn?
(a) Food she had brought for the journey.
(b) Wool from Merewyn's sheep in Greenland.
(c) The Bylgja and a Narwhal horn.
(d) A Viking helmet and shield.

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

3. How many ships set sail from the western Fjords in the Spring?
(a) 10.
(b) 100.
(c) 25.
(d) 3.

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

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

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

7. What does Ketil think of Erik's news?
(a) Ketil is bored with it.
(b) Ketil doesn't believe what Erik tells him.
(c) 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.
(d) Ketil believes it is dangerous.

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

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

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

11. What does the Abbess speak of to the nuns during the interviews?
(a) The nuns final vows.
(b) The nuns lack of faith that God will protect them.
(c) Devotion and Faith.
(d) The nuns lack of courage.

12. Who is Orm?
(a) Merewyn's husband.
(b) Merewyn's captor.
(c) Merewyn's guard.
(d) Merewyn's son.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of a ruler is Ethelred?

2. What commands does Leif present to the people when he arrives at the feast?

3. What is the name of the chief Viking?

4. Who asks to join King Sweyn?

5. How did Poldu remain alive after the attack?

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