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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 is Breaca?
(a) Rumon's aunt.
(b) Merewyn's sister.
(c) Merewyn's mother.
(d) Rumon's mother.

2. Why do Rumon and Merewyn suspect that Merewyn's mother is dead?
(a) Because she is not breathing.
(b) Because they check her pulse.
(c) Because they see no smoke rising from the chimney.
(d) Because they find her with a knife stuck in her chest.

3. How does Merewyn react to Rumon's betrothal?
(a) By telling him she's very happy for him.
(b) By telling him that she is in love with him.
(c) By sobbing.
(d) By telling him he is either mad or bewitched - or both.

4. How does the Queen react to the King's decision as to whom he has chosen to succeed him?
(a) She is too upset at the King's dying to react.
(b) She also gives her blessing.
(c) She is in shock.
(d) She stalks out of the room in a rage.

5. What does the King tell Merewyn?
(a) That she is welcome and will be treated in a manner that befits the last of the line of King Arthur.
(b) That she is his long lost daughter and should be crowned as such the following day.
(c) That she must leave the Court immediately, never to return.
(d) That she is forbidden to travel alone with a man and should be punished.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does Gunnar bear?

2. Why doesn't Rumon drink his draught?

3. What does Merewyn hope her prayers will accomplish?

4. Why does Merewyn leave home?

5. What does Rumon's vision convince him of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Rumon's nightmare on Christmas night after Alfrida had made time to see him earlier in the day?

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

3. What did the monastery behind the small church that is dedicated to St. Petroc look like when Rumon saw it for the first time?

4. Describe Merewyn when she first encounters Rumon.

5. Describe Caw when he is first introduced in Chapter 1.

6. What terrible events followed very soon after Edward's Coronation?

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

8. What happened when Edward's body thane, Gunnar, is sent to Alfrida on Coronation Eve?

9. How did Rumon decorated his rooms in the Glastonbury Abbey guesthouse during the 2 years he lived there?

10. How did Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, look when Rumon first sees him?

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