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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the primary image of "The Song of the Broch?"
(a) Eagles alighting.
(b) Danger from afar.
(c) Storm clouds brewing.
(d) Stone mother.

2. Why does Thorfinn miss the great battle at Stirling Castle?
(a) He sleeps through it.
(b) He falls off a cliff into a river.
(c) He drinks too much whiskey.
(d) He's hiding in a cave.

3. What leader shatters the English army at Stirling Castle?
(a) Simon the Brazen.
(b) King Robert the Bruce.
(c) Thorfinn the Brave.
(d) Bannock the Burn.

4. What is at the center of a broch?
(a) Sleeping quarters for children.
(b) Cookstoves.
(c) Stable for horses.
(d) A deep well.

5. What is a croft?
(a) Carving skills.
(b) Group of bairns.
(c) Fishing boat.
(d) Farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the island's only "person of quality?"

2. What is Matilda Kerrigan known as in Norday Island?

3. What nationality was King Robert the Bruce?

4. What do the Norday villagers use to attack from the broch?

5. What is this "crudded milk, fantastical puff-paste" that George Mackay Brown speaks of in chapter 6?

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