2. 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?

3. What does Rumon tell Merewyn when they sit down at twilight?
(a) He wants to marry her.
(b) He wants her.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He must go.

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

5. Who dies after a prolonged illness that causes terrible stomach pain?
(a) Leif Erikson.
(b) Orm.
(c) Ketil.
(d) Sigurd.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Rumon and Finian that there is trouble?

2. Where does Ketil die?

3. What did Rumon decide to do once he heard the news that Merewyn was taken by the Vikings?

4. What is held every year on the eastern plain of Reykjavik?

5. How quickly do Rumon and the fishermen he hired reach the mouth of the Shannon River?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Abbess Merwinna request of Merewyn?

2. Where was Merewyn's interview and what was Merewyn doing with Abbess Merwinna when the Abbess told Merewyn that she couldn't be accepted into the novitiate?

3. What is the Allthing?

4. How did Bishop Ethelwold reply to Merewyn when she asked him where she should go upon her return from her journey to bury the Abbess' heart at St. Petroc's?

5. How were Merewyn, Orm, and Thora received at the hostel at Glastonbury Abbey?

6. What was Ethelred like in the year 1002?

7. What did Merewyn see as the differences between Greenland and Iceland?

8. How had Bishop Ethelwold done his duty by Merewyn for her trip to St. Petroc's?

9. How did Ketil react to Merewyn's plea for him not to go a-viking anymore?

10. How did Ketil dress on his way to the Allthing, two weeks after Rumon left Iceland?

(see the answer keys)

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