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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. Where does Merewyn take her aunt's heart after her aunt dies?
(a) To the King.
(b) To Uther.
(c) To the grave of King Arthur.
(d) To the crypt in the Abbey.

2. What does Rumon realize when he sees Merewyn at the place where she has taken her aunt's heart?
(a) Merewyn has never been far from his thoughts.
(b) He has been a fool.
(c) He is lost.
(d) Merewyn's aunt is dead.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sigurd, Merewyn, Orm, and Ketil call their new home?

2. What does Bishop Ethelwold do when he returns to the Abbey in October?

3. What does Rumon tell Merewyn when they sit down at twilight?

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

5. Who becomes ill when Ketil goes down to the naust for his daily walk to the Bylgja?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Merewyn tell the porter at Glastonbury Abbey that got her in to see the Abbot?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did the Abbess Merwinna request of Merewyn?

(see the answer keys)

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