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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rumon take the Queen after the King's death?

2. What is the name of Earl Ordgar's daughter?

3. Why do Rumon and Merewyn suspect that Merewyn's mother is dead?

4. In what year does the story begin?

5. When Rumon meets Breaca of Uther, what does he notices?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Bishop Ethelwold visited Abbess Merwinna, what did he say happened to Alfhere?

2. How does Edward describe his love, Elgifu?

3. Describe Brother Finian.

4. How did Rumon decorated his rooms in the Glastonbury Abbey guesthouse during the 2 years he lived there?

5. How has Merewyn changed since she first came to work for Alfrida in the Queen's Bower?

6. How does Elfled describe the dream she had to Merewyn while in Ramsey Abbey's garden on the feast of the Assumption?

7. How did Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, look when Rumon first sees him?

8. How does Dunstan describe the scene that he came upon that led him to take Rumon to Glastonbury Abbey two weeks after the coronation?

9. On the feast of the Assumption, how does Merewyn describe the Abbey's gardens as she sat in them beside Elfled on the well curb?

10. What terrible events followed very soon after Edward's Coronation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the title of the novel, "Avalon," relate to the novel itself? Is the title descriptive? A statement of the theme? Or something else altogether? Why Did Seton choose the title "Avalon" over other possibilities? Analyze the relationship between title and novel, paying attention to the reasons that the title highlights something that the Seton wants readers to know or come to understand about the novel.

Essay Topic 2

What is the passionate emotion that is communicated in "Avalon?" Why was Seton moved to write? What is the thing that the Seton had to communicate? Explain Seton's motivating emotion and how it is explored in "Avalon?"

Essay Topic 3

When Rumon finds Merewyn in Iceland as an accepted member of society and happily married, Rumon may have viewed that as an act of betrayal by Merewyn. Later, Rumon admits to Merewyn that he betrayed his own values and beliefs when he killed two Vikings during a raid not to save the church's treasures in an act of heroism but symbolically killing Merewyn's Viking husband and father for them having taken Merewyn away from him. Analyze the nature of these betrayals and demonstrate how they contributed to the meaning of "Avalon" as a whole.

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