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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Merewyn ask the Abbot?
(a) Would he baptize her children?
(b) Who is king now?
(c) Where Rumon is.
(d) Could she stay at the Abbey?

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

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

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

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

6. Where does Merewyn and her family live?
(a) In the capital of Iceland.
(b) In Western Iceland, near the Bogarfjord.
(c) In Ireland.
(d) In England.

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

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

9. What do Sigurd, Merewyn, Orm, and Ketil call their new home?
(a) Ketilvik.
(b) New Tre-Uther.
(c) Langarfoss.
(d) Rich Port.

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

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

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

13. Who came to the church and was going to rape Merewyn?
(a) Rumon.
(b) Dunstan.
(c) Ethelred.
(d) The Vikings.

14. Who becomes ill when Ketil goes down to the naust for his daily walk to the Bylgja?
(a) Brigid.
(b) Sigurd.
(c) Merewyn.
(d) Orm.

15. 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 decides to pay Sweyn to stop attacking England.
(c) He has his Thanes slaughter the Vikings.
(d) He offers his youngest daughter to Canute in marriage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Sigurd?

3. What does Ketil call Merewyn?

4. What does the Abbess suggest Merewyn to do once her pilgrimage is over?

5. When does the Abbess interview the nuns?

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