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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. Where does Rumon take the Queen after the King's death?
(a) Back to her bower.
(b) To his room.
(c) To the royal garden.
(d) To the chapel to pray.

2. How long does it take to get to the King's Court from Glastonbury Abbey?
(a) Not long at all.
(b) A few hours.
(c) Two days.
(d) A week.

3. How does Court refer to Alfrida after King Edgar dies?
(a) They don't refer to her as anything because they do not acknowledge her.
(b) The Witch.
(c) The former Queen.
(d) Old Lady.

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

5. What does King Edward ask Alfrida through Gunner?
(a) Would she marry Gunner.
(b) Which property she would like as her Dower House.
(c) Would she kindly mind her own business.
(d) Why did you murder my father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What announcement does Alfrida want to make at dinner that evening after Yuletide?

2. What other name is Romieux de Provence known by?

3. In what year does the story begin?

4. What does the King tell Merewyn?

5. Who is Gunner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Edward describe his love, Elgifu?

2. Describe Merewyn when she first encounters Rumon.

3. How did Alfrida act toward Edward in the beginning of Chapter 6?

4. Why did Rumon leave his homeland?

5. What happened between Alfrida and Alfhere when Alfhere burst into Alfrida's bower after he heard that Ethelred would not attend Edward's Coronation?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Queen Alfrida look when she arrives in the Great Hall to meet Merewyn and Rumon?

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