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

2. What does Orm ask Merewyn about after she and her party walk over the Mendip Mountains?
(a) The Tor and St. Michael's tower.
(b) The girl he hopes to marry.
(c) Her life before she was in Iceland.
(d) The English language.

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

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

5. Where does Merewyn and her family live?
(a) In Western Iceland, near the Bogarfjord.
(b) In the capital of Iceland.
(c) In Ireland.
(d) In England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merewyn want for Orm in England?

2. What does Odo purchase from Merewyn?

3. What does Odo use to purchase things for Merewyn?

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

5. How does Orm accept the proper protocol when he meets the Abbot of Glastonbury?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. How did Merewyn describe the Hafnarfell Mountains?

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

7. What did the Abbess Merwinna request of Merewyn?

8. What is the Allthing?

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

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

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