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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. Why does the chief Viking order Merewyn to be taken to his ship?
(a) He needs another house servant in his homeland.
(b) He wants to marry Merewyn in his homeland.
(c) Because Poldu tells the chief Viking that Merewyn is his daughter.
(d) He will kill Merewyn at sea.

2. What does Erik tell Ketil when Ketil finds him in the evening?
(a) That Erik's wife was expecting their 5th child.
(b) That Ketil looked old and tired.
(c) That Ketil should not have looked so hard for him because Erik would have found Ketil.
(d) That Erik sailed west to a land where grasslands bordered a central ice cap.

3. Why is Merewyn excited after she and her party walk over the Medip Mountains?
(a) She is exicted to tell her children about the area in which she grew up.
(b) She is excited to be home.
(c) She is excited to be at Glastonbury and to find Rumon.
(d) She is excited to finally be over the mountains.

4. What commands does Leif present to the people when he arrives at the feast?
(a) The people of Greenland must return to Iceland.
(b) The people of Greenland must stop going after Vikings.
(c) The people of Greenland must raise more sheep.
(d) The King of Norway wants everyone baptized right away.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Odo friendly to Merewyn?

2. How long is it since the Viking raid at the beginning of Chapter 10?

3. What does Ketil think of Erik's news?

4. How does Rumon react to Poldu's news that Merewyn was taken by the Vikings?

5. Which country does regular trade with Greenland in 1000?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Orm feel for his mother once Orm sold the Bylgia to the Bristol Thane, Odo?

2. What was the grand commotion that happened in Greenland in June of 1000?

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

4. How did Merewyn describe the Hafnarfell Mountains?

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

6. How was Merewyn dressed as she followed her men on the way to the Allthing?

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

8. 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?

9. How was Sigurd dressed as he followed Ketil on the way to the Allthing?

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

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