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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. Why does the chief Viking order Merewyn to be taken to his ship?
(a) He wants to marry Merewyn in his homeland.
(b) He will kill Merewyn at sea.
(c) Because Poldu tells the chief Viking that Merewyn is his daughter.
(d) He needs another house servant in his homeland.

2. What does Merewyn tell Orm is the proper protocol when they meet the Abbot of Glastonbury?
(a) It is proper for him to kneel before the Abbot.
(b) It is proper for him to kiss the Abbot's ring.
(c) It is proper for him to bow to the Abbot.
(d) It is proper for him to shake the Abbot's left hand with his right to show him he bears no weapons.

3. Who's hand in marriage does King Ethelred ask for?
(a) Merewyn's.
(b) Emma, the Duke of Normandy's sister.
(c) The oldest daughter of the Duke of Somerset.
(d) Thora's.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sigurd think about Christianity?

3. What does Sigurd make Orm promise before Sigurd dies?

4. What does the Abbess speak of to the nuns during the interviews?

5. Who does Merewyn see coming up the road on horseback as she waves good-bye to Asgerd?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Brother Finian told Rumon that he smelled smoke as they came to the broad estuary of the Camel River in their search for Merewyn, how did Rumon respond to Finian?

2. What did the Abbess Merwinna request of Merewyn?

3. What did Merewyn see as the differences between Greenland and Iceland?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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