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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 Merewyn want Sigurd to do while at the Althing?
(a) Stay sober.
(b) Release her from her promise.
(c) Get baptized.
(d) Become a member of the group.

2. How does Merewyn react to what Rumon tells her when they sit down at twilight?
(a) She cries with joy.
(b) She accepts his offer and goes with him to the tower.
(c) She cries with sadness that her aunt is not there.
(d) She is horrified that he would think that she is good enough to bed but not to wed.

3. Who is Sigurd?
(a) Merewyn's husband.
(b) Merewyn's son.
(c) Merewyn's captor.
(d) Merewyn's guard.

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

5. How does Orm accept the proper protocol when he meets the Abbot of Glastonbury?
(a) Orm refuses.
(b) Orm complains.
(c) Orm does what he is told without question.
(d) Orm sulks at the idea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ketil call Merewyn?

2. Why is Merewyn excited after she and her party walk over the Medip Mountains?

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

4. What does Merewyn and her husband raise on their land?

5. What does Merewyn do to avoid Rumon after what happens at twilight on the top of the Tor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did Merewyn describe the Hafnarfell Mountains?

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

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

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