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

2. Who asks to join King Sweyn?
(a) Erik the Red.
(b) Canute.
(c) Orm.
(d) Ketil.

3. What does Ketil call Merewyn?
(a) Dottir.
(b) The Slave.
(c) The Captive.
(d) The English Woman.

4. How does King Ethelred decide to solve the problem of the Viking attacks?
(a) He has his Thanes set fire to the Viking ships.
(b) He offers his youngest daughter to Canute in marriage.
(c) He has his Thanes slaughter the Vikings.
(d) He decides to pay Sweyn to stop attacking England.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Merewyn react to what Rumon tells her when they sit down at twilight?

2. What does Bishop Ethelwold do when he returns to the Abbey in October?

3. What does Merewyn ask the Abbot?

4. Where do Ketil and his group arrive when Rumon has been gone a fortnight?

5. What does Merewyn do to avoid Rumon after what happens at twilight on the top of the Tor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did Merewyn describe the Hafnarfell Mountains?

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

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

8. What did Merewyn tell the porter at Glastonbury Abbey that got her in to see the Abbot?

9. What did the Abbess Merwinna request of Merewyn?

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

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