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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. Ketil rides around on his horse looking for whom at "Logberg"?
(a) Orm.
(b) Rumon.
(c) Brattalid.
(d) Erik the Red.

2. What is the name of the chief Viking?
(a) Sigurd.
(b) Orm Sigurdsson.
(c) Ketil Redbeard.
(d) Erik Thorvaldson.

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

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

5. When does Merewyn become an official lady-in-waiting to Queen Elgifu?
(a) The year 1002.
(b) The year 999.
(c) The year 1005.
(d) The year 1000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Merewyn and her family live?

2. What does Sigurd think about Christianity?

3. What do Sigurd, Merewyn, Orm, and Ketil call their new home?

4. What mountains does Merewyn have a view of from her home?

5. How many ships set sail from the western Fjords in the Spring?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Thora, Merewyn's daughter, like in June of 1000?

2. When did Rumon get word of Merewyn's whereabouts when he followed her back to Padstow?

3. Why did Orm stiffen when the porter at Glastonbury Abbey referred to the Vikings as "dreadful Danes?"

4. How does Merewyn's mother-in-law, Asgerd feel about Merewyn?

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

6. Why couldn't Merewyn get the land grants and the title of Thane for Orm that she wanted in the year 1002?

7. What was Ethelred like in the year 1002?

8. What happened to England as Ethelred cowered in his palace at Winchester?

9. What did the Abbess Merwinna request of Merewyn?

10. What was wrong with Ethelred's first wife, Queen Elgifu, in the year 1002?

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