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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Merewyn and her husband raise on their land?
(a) Goats.
(b) Sheep and horses.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Pigs.

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

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

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

5. Who sails into Greenland in June of 1000?
(a) Sigurd.
(b) Ketil.
(c) Leif Erikson.
(d) Erik the Red.

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

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

8. When does the Abbess interview the nuns?
(a) During her lengthy recovery.
(b) After the Vikings were defeated.
(c) Soon after the Abbey is destroyed.
(d) Right away.

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. Who's commands does Leif present to the people when he arrives at the feast?
(a) King Vaaran of Finland.
(b) King Sverker II of Sweden.
(c) King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway.
(d) King Hugh of France.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does King Ethelred decide to solve the problem of the Viking attacks?

3. What does the Abbot suggest to Merewyn regarding her question?

4. What does Sigurd make Orm promise before Sigurd dies?

5. What does Rumon tell Merewyn when they sit down at twilight?

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