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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 Orm try out as with King Sweyn's men?
(a) A captain of a small Viking ships.
(b) A steersman on one of the long Viking ships.
(c) A Thane for King Ethelred.
(d) A huntsmen for Wulfric.

2. When does the Abbess interview the nuns?
(a) Right away.
(b) Soon after the Abbey is destroyed.
(c) During her lengthy recovery.
(d) After the Vikings were defeated.

3. What does Odo purchase from Merewyn?
(a) Wool from Merewyn's sheep in Greenland.
(b) A Viking helmet and shield.
(c) The Bylgja and a Narwhal horn.
(d) Food she had brought for the journey.

4. What does Ketil think of Erik's news?
(a) Ketil believes it is dangerous.
(b) Ketil is bored with it.
(c) He is so enthusiastic as he describes this place that Ketil is already dreaming of a new home called Ketilsfjord, with miles of free land.
(d) Ketil doesn't believe what Erik tells him.

5. Who does Merewyn see coming up the road on horseback as she waves good-bye to Asgerd?
(a) Asgerd.
(b) Rumon and Jorund, his companion.
(c) Sigurd.
(d) Ketil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sigurd think about Christianity?

2. Who is found dead after Rumon and Finian see that Tre-Uther is burned?

3. How many ships set sail from the western Fjords in the Spring?

4. What kind of a ruler is Ethelred?

5. What does Merewyn tell Orm is the proper protocol when they meet the Abbot of Glastonbury?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How was Sigurd dressed as he followed Ketil on the way to the Allthing?

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

10. 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?

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