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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. What does Merewyn ask the Abbot?
2. How quickly do Rumon and the fishermen he hired reach the mouth of the Shannon River?
3. How do the people at the feast react to the commands that Leif presents to them?
4. Where do Ketil and his group arrive when Rumon has been gone a fortnight?
5. What does Merewyn tell Orm is the proper protocol when they meet the Abbot of Glastonbury?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the Allthing?
2. 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?
3. How did Merewyn describe the Hafnarfell Mountains?
4. What did Orm feel for his mother once Orm sold the Bylgia to the Bristol Thane, Odo?
5. How was Sigurd dressed as he followed Ketil on the way to the Allthing?
6. How were Merewyn, Orm, and Thora received at the hostel at Glastonbury Abbey?
7. Why did Orm stiffen when the porter at Glastonbury Abbey referred to the Vikings as "dreadful Danes?"
8. When Finian and Rumon went up to the monastery, what did the prior, Poldu, say happened to Merewyn during the Viking raid?
9. How did Brother Finian and Rumon find out that the smoke Finian smelled was really a Viking attack?
10. What did Merewyn see on her trip to the Allthing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain how and why the ending of "Avalon" appropriately or inappropriately concluded the story. Did the ending of "Avalon" provide the reader with a significant closure or did it merely end? Does the reader have to adjust to ambiguity or uncertainty or does "Avalon" satisfy the reader need to know what happens to Merewyn and Rumon?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast Celtic Christianity and Roman Catholicism of Medieval society. What do they have in common? How are they different?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the way that the techniques Seton uses to make the setting vivid and real to readers and how effective these techniques are. What are the primary locations? How are these places made realistic? How does Seton use extended description, background information and specific detail to make the setting come alive for readers? How do Merewyn and Rumon fit in the setting: Do they seem at home or out of place? How do their reactions and interactions with the setting affect the realism of the locations?
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