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

2. How does Rumon react to Poldu's news that Merewyn was taken by the Vikings?
(a) He is devastated.
(b) He drops to his knees and prays for her protection.
(c) He is angry that Poldu didn't stop them.
(d) He cries terribly.

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

4. What does Merewyn ask the Abbess while the Bishop is at the Abby?
(a) Merewyn asks if she may marry.
(b) Merewyn asks if she may leave the Abbey.
(c) Merewyn asks if she may go back to Uther.
(d) Merewyn asks the Abbess permission to enter the nunnery.

5. How did Poldu remain alive after the attack?
(a) He fought back.
(b) He spoke up, asking the chief if he was such a beast that he would rape his own daughter.
(c) He hid from the Vikings.
(d) He killed the chief Viking.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Thorbjorg tells Sigurd and Merewyn about Ketil, what does Thorbjorg say about Merewyn ?

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

3. What does Orm try out as with King Sweyn's men?

4. What did Rumon decide to do once he heard the news that Merewyn was taken by the Vikings?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. How did Ketil dress on his way to the Allthing, two weeks after Rumon left Iceland?

7. What did Merewyn see on her trip to the Allthing?

8. What is the Allthing?

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

10. What did the Abbess Merwinna request of Merewyn?

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