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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. How long is it since the Viking raid at the beginning of Chapter 10?
2. Why are Sigurd, Merewyn, and Orm disappointed when round the cape?
3. What did Merewyn ask of her husband and father-in-law, Ketil?
4. Where does Ketil die?
5. When do Finian and Rumon first sense that something is wrong on their journey to find Merewyn?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the grand commotion that happened in Greenland in June of 1000?
2. Why did Orm stiffen when the porter at Glastonbury Abbey referred to the Vikings as "dreadful Danes?"
3. What is Thora, Merewyn's daughter, like in June of 1000?
4. What is the Allthing?
5. What did Merewyn tell the porter at Glastonbury Abbey that got her in to see the Abbot?
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 does Merewyn's mother-in-law, Asgerd feel about Merewyn?
8. How did Merewyn describe the Hafnarfell Mountains?
9. 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?
10. How did Ketil react to Merewyn's plea for him not to go a-viking anymore?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
The dove motif appears several times in "Avalon." Why is the dove used in the story? How does it relate to those particular scenes in the novel? How is it important to the overall theme or plot?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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