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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. Who becomes ill when Ketil goes down to the naust for his daily walk to the Bylgja?
(a) Orm.
(b) Sigurd.
(c) Merewyn.
(d) Brigid.

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

3. Where does Ketil die?
(a) In his bed, asleep.
(b) On his ship, where he is happiest.
(c) In battle with Sigurd.
(d) At sea.

4. How does Merewyn feel toward Elgifu?
(a) She resents her.
(b) She hates her.
(c) She feels pitty but she never really warms to the Queen.
(d) She loves her like a sister.

5. What does Rumon offer to do for Merewyn when he meets her at the place where she has taken her aunt's heart?
(a) Help her bury the heart.
(b) Guide her up the Tor that evening
(c) Take her home to Uther.
(d) Marry her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Abbess suggest Merewyn to do once her pilgrimage is over?

2. What does Odo purchase from Merewyn?

3. How does Merewyn feel about going to the place Erik speaks of?

4. Who do Rumon and Finian find at the church?

5. What is the name of the chief Viking?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the Allthing?

5. How did Merewyn describe the Hafnarfell Mountains?

6. What did the Abbess Merwinna request of Merewyn?

7. How did Brother Finian and Rumon find out that the smoke Finian smelled was really a Viking attack?

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

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

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

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