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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who colonized Greenland?
(a) Rumon.
(b) Lief Ericson.
(c) Langarfoss.
(d) Eric the Red.

2. What does Rumon's vision convince him of?
(a) That he is on the path of his quest.
(b) That he is making a mistake.
(c) That he should enter the monastery.
(d) That he will one day be King.

3. How does Edward die?
(a) Ethelred stabs Edward in the heart.
(b) Cild and Wulfgar jump Edward and beat him.
(c) His foot is entangled in his horse's stirrup and he is dragged, face down, over the rocks.
(d) Alfrida poisons him.

4. What happened to Breaca's family during the Viking attack?
(a) Most were slaughtered.
(b) They were saved by the monks.
(c) They were kidnapped by the Vikings.
(d) Their crops were ruined.

5. Who kneels throughout Edward's requiem mass in black homespun clothes?
(a) Rumon.
(b) Alfrida.
(c) Ethelred.
(d) Alfhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Rumon drink the second poison?

2. How does Court refer to Alfrida after King Edgar dies?

3. What is Breaca's dying wish?

4. Why does Rumon leave Alfrida's castle at noon and return to his own lodgings?

5. Whom does the King summon shortly after Dunstan's and Rumon's discussion?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the thought of Merewyn painful for Rumon as he talked to Dunstan outside his guesthouse rooms at Glastonbury Abbey?

2. How does Edward describe his love, Elgifu?

3. Why did Alfrida consent to marry Rumon when he asked her again the day after Christmas?

4. What did Rumon say to Merewyn in his letter that he sent to her at the Abbey?

5. How has Merewyn changed since she first came to work for Alfrida in the Queen's Bower?

6. How does Elfled describe the dream she had to Merewyn while in Ramsey Abbey's garden on the feast of the Assumption?

7. How does Dunstan describe the scene that he came upon that led him to take Rumon to Glastonbury Abbey two weeks after the coronation?

8. Why did Rumon leave his homeland?

9. What kind of person is Earl Alfhere, Lord of all Mercia, when he is introduced in Chapter 3? What does he look like?

10. When Bishop Ethelwold visited Abbess Merwinna, what did he say happened to Alfhere?

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