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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What keeps Thorfinn awake during church services?
(a) Singing hymns.
(b) Eating sweets.
(c) Counting sheep.
(d) Playing the piano.

2. Who is the island's only "person of quality?"
(a) Mr. Harcourt-Smithers, the laird.
(b) Bishop Michael of Orkney.
(c) Thorfinn Ragnarson.
(d) Isa Estquoy, the sheriff.

3. Who takes Thorfinn back from the Eastern Empire to Norday Island?
(a) Earl Rognvald.
(b) Emperor Manuel.
(c) Viking pirates.
(d) Rolf Rolfson.

4. What happens when the Sea King ship is sighted?
(a) The army is sent to shore to defend the village.
(b) Flocks are driven in, fishermen hide in caves, families in the broch.
(c) All gather in the church and pray.
(d) Everyone runs to boats and tries to escape the island.

5. Who are the Varingers?
(a) Archers in the Royal Army.
(b) Guards of the waterways of Europe.
(c) Elite guard of the eastern emperor.
(d) Underwater spies for Byzantine tribes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the village opinion of Miss Cameron?

2. Why can't the Vikings return to Sweden?

3. Who sees the ship of the Sea King in the distance?

4. What is at the center of a broch?

5. How is Thorfinn's pet monkey dressed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mr. Simon's lesson on Bannockburn so boring?

2. What do the family and friends of Jacob Olafson do when the old man dies?

3. In chapter four where does the school teacher, Mr. Simon, take the class?

4. In the Song of the Broch, how does Thorfinn describe the sheltering castle?

5. Why did the invading ship men stop coming to claim land in the Orkney islands?

6. Why is the horse, Seamus, killed on the road to Stirling Castle?

7. How are the men of the North treated when they had sailed into the Byzantium empire?

8. When Jacob Olafson returns from his great adventure, what does he bring and what does he find?

9. Why does the author call the gathering at the Norday blacksmith shop "the village parliament?"

10. When and where does Old Jacob Olafson die?

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