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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 will kill Merewyn at sea.
(b) He needs another house servant in his homeland.
(c) He wants to marry Merewyn in his homeland.
(d) Because Poldu tells the chief Viking that Merewyn is his daughter.

2. Why are Sigurd, Merewyn, and Orm disappointed when round the cape?
(a) They had lost so many on the voyage.
(b) They miss their home in Iceland.
(c) They see grassland, but no trees are in sight.
(d) They see nothing but ice.

3. Why does Queen Elgifu need constant nursing?
(a) She was hurt in a riding accident.
(b) She delivers a still born baby, and afterward simply deteriorates.
(c) She was attacked in the last Viking attack.
(d) She has a deadly illness.

4. What has happened to Merewyn since she was taken by the Vikings?
(a) She has married and has a 15-month-old son.
(b) She has gone on a hunger strike.
(c) She has yet to speak to her captors.
(d) She has escaped into the wilderness of Iceland.

5. Who leads the Viking attacks?
(a) King Sweyn and his son Canute of Denmark.
(b) Orm.
(c) Ketil.
(d) Erik the Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merewyn tell the Abbot she wants?

2. What does the Abbess speak of to the nuns during the interviews?

3. What does Orm ask Merewyn about after she and her party walk over the Mendip Mountains?

4. Who does Merewyn see coming up the road on horseback as she waves good-bye to Asgerd?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. When Brother Finian told Rumon that he smelled smoke as they came to the broad estuary of the Camel River in their search for Merewyn, how did Rumon respond to Finian?

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

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

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

8. What is the Allthing?

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

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

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