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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 Ketil die?
2. What does Merewyn ask the Abbess while the Bishop is at the Abby?
3. How does Rumon react to Poldu's news that Merewyn was taken by the Vikings?
4. What does Odo purchase from Merewyn?
5. What does Orm ask Merewyn about after she and her party walk over the Mendip Mountains?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the grand commotion that happened in Greenland in June of 1000?
2. What happened to England as Ethelred cowered in his palace at Winchester?
3. 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?
4. What is Thora, Merewyn's daughter, like in June of 1000?
5. How did Ketil dress on his way to the Allthing, two weeks after Rumon left Iceland?
6. What was Ethelred like in the year 1002?
7. What did the Abbess Merwinna request of Merewyn?
8. How does Merewyn's mother-in-law, Asgerd feel about Merewyn?
9. What was wrong with Ethelred's first wife, Queen Elgifu, in the year 1002?
10. Why did Orm stiffen when the porter at Glastonbury Abbey referred to the Vikings as "dreadful Danes?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Select a moment or scene in "Avalon" that you find especially memorable. Identify the passage, explain how it is used in the novel, and analyze the reasons for its effectiveness.
Essay Topic 3
In "Avalon," many brutal Viking raids are described. Compare and contrast the English views of Vikings or Norsemen to what we see when Merewyn becomes an accepted member of Icelandic society.
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