View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the King of England?

2. Who is Gunner?

3. Who celebrates Edward's requiem mass?

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

5. What happens to make the Council want to crown King Edgar's choice to succeed him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Brother Finian.

2. Describe Caw when he is first introduced in Chapter 1.

3. How does Queen Alfrida look when she arrives in the Great Hall to meet Merewyn and Rumon?

4. What did Rumon say to Merewyn in his letter that he sent to her at the Abbey?

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

6. How does Edward describe his love, Elgifu?

7. How did Alfrida act toward Edward in the beginning of Chapter 6?

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. Is Breaca, Merewyn's mother, crazy as Rumon thinks she is when he meets her at the beginning of Chapter 2?

10. Why was the thought of Merewyn painful for Rumon as he talked to Dunstan outside his guesthouse rooms at Glastonbury Abbey?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

"Avalon" has many journeys in it. Discuss how these journeys of Rumon and Merewyn add to the novel as a whole and parallel the inner journeys that both Rumon and Merewyn experience.

Essay Topic 3

Explore the way that social class and class issues influence the characters and plot of "Avalon." What social classes are represented? To what extent is each class depicted; are all the classes given equal representation? How do the classes in "Avalon" relate to the classes that realistically existed in Medieval England and Iceland?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,285 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample