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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. How does Merewyn feel about going to the place Erik speaks of?
(a) What matters to Merewyn is what her husband's family wants to be.
(b) Merewyn is indifferent so long as she is not returning to England.
(c) Merewyn hates to leave Langarfoss.
(d) Merewyn is as excited as Ketil to go.

2. What is working its way through the Western Settlement in Greenland?
(a) A famine.
(b) A sickness.
(c) Marauders.
(d) Bad weather.

3. What year is it at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) 1000.
(b) 984.
(c) 982.
(d) The same years as Merewyn was taken.

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

5. What does the Abbot think Merewyn and her group want?
(a) Charity.
(b) Information.
(c) Food.
(d) Lodging for the night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ketil call Merewyn?

2. Who dies after a prolonged illness that causes terrible stomach pain?

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

4. What does Rumon tell Merewyn when they sit down at twilight?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the Abbess Merwinna request of Merewyn?

6. 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?

7. How did Merewyn describe the Hafnarfell Mountains?

8. How does Merewyn describe Thorbjorg, the seeress from Brattalid?

9. 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?

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

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