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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 does Odo purchase from Merewyn?
(a) Food she had brought for the journey.
(b) The Bylgja and a Narwhal horn.
(c) A Viking helmet and shield.
(d) Wool from Merewyn's sheep in Greenland.

2. What does Rumon tell Merewyn when they sit down at twilight?
(a) He wants her.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He wants to marry her.
(d) He must go.

3. Who is Thorbjorg?
(a) Leif Erikson's wife.
(b) Ketil's new young wife.
(c) Orm's girlfriend.
(d) A seeress from Brattalid.

4. What does Bishop Ethelwold do when he returns to the Abbey in October?
(a) He hears final vows from Elfled and four others.
(b) He celebrates a special mass of thanks.
(c) He expels two nuns for their lack of courage.
(d) He chastises the Abbess for making herself sick.

5. How long is it since the Viking raid at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 3 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who came to the church and was going to rape Merewyn?

3. Where does Merewyn take her aunt's heart after her aunt dies?

4. What does the Abbot suggest to Merewyn regarding her question?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When Finian and Rumon went up to the monastery, what did the prior, Poldu, say happened to Merewyn during the Viking raid?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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