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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 do the people at the feast react to the commands that Leif presents to them?
(a) Despite reluctance, everyone knows that trade is directly tied to their obedience in matters such as these.
(b) A huge fight breaks out among the men.
(c) Most leave the feast immediately without celebrating in protest.
(d) Most refuse to be baptized outright.

2. What does the Abbess suggest Merewyn to do once her pilgrimage is over?
(a) Go to Uther.
(b) Marry Rumon and have children.
(c) Become a nun.
(d) Go back to Court.

3. Why is Odo friendly to Merewyn?
(a) He recognizes Merewyn from years earlier.
(b) He is hoping she and her Viking son won't hurt him.
(c) He wants her to have good things to say about him when she gets to Court.
(d) He's a monk and monks should be friendly.

4. How does Merewyn feel about going to the place Erik speaks of?
(a) What matters to Merewyn is what her husband's family wants to be.
(b) Merewyn is indifferent so long as she is not returning to England.
(c) Merewyn is as excited as Ketil to go.
(d) Merewyn hates to leave Langarfoss.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Odo purchase from Merewyn?

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

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

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

5. How does Rumon react to Poldu's news that Merewyn was taken by the Vikings?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Merewyn describe the Hafnarfell Mountains?

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

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

4. What was wrong with Ethelred's first wife, Queen Elgifu, in the year 1002?

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

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

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

8. What is the Allthing?

9. What was Ethelred like in the year 1002?

10. 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?

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