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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. Who asks to join King Sweyn?
2. Who leads the Viking attacks?
3. What has happened to Merewyn since she was taken by the Vikings?
4. Who does King Sweyn leave behind in England?
5. Who's hand in marriage does King Ethelred ask for?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the Abbess Merwinna request of Merewyn?
2. Why couldn't Merewyn get the land grants and the title of Thane for Orm that she wanted in the year 1002?
3. What did Merewyn see as the differences between Greenland and Iceland?
4. What was the grand commotion that happened in Greenland in June of 1000?
5. How did Brother Finian and Rumon find out that the smoke Finian smelled was really a Viking attack?
6. When Brother Finian told Rumon that he smelled smoke as they came to the broad estuary of the Camel River in their search for Merewyn, how did Rumon respond to Finian?
7. How was Merewyn dressed as she followed her men on the way to the Allthing?
8. Why did Orm stiffen when the porter at Glastonbury Abbey referred to the Vikings as "dreadful Danes?"
9. How does Merewyn describe Thorbjorg, the seeress from Brattalid?
10. What was wrong with Ethelred's first wife, Queen Elgifu, in the year 1002?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Think about how the characters, setting, and themes in "Avalon" relate to the period in which it was written. (The early to mid 1960s.) How is it a reflection, and how is it a criticism of that time period? How does Seton make her opinions about that world clear to the reader?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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