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

2. How quickly do Rumon and the fishermen he hired reach the mouth of the Shannon River?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 6 hours.
(c) 1 hour.
(d) 1 day.

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

4. Why is Merewyn excited after she and her party walk over the Medip Mountains?
(a) She is excited to finally be over the mountains.
(b) She is excited to be home.
(c) She is exicted to tell her children about the area in which she grew up.
(d) She is excited to be at Glastonbury and to find Rumon.

5. Who tells Rumon and Finian that there is trouble?
(a) A young Cornish child.
(b) Merewyn.
(c) A bishop.
(d) A local merchant running from the scene.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came to the church and was going to rape Merewyn?

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

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

4. What does King Ethelred do while the Vikings attack England?

5. How does Merewyn feel about going to the place Erik speaks of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. What was Ethelred like in the year 1002?

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

8. 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?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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