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

2. Who is Isa Estquoy?
(a) Thorfinn's mother.
(b) Reverend Drummond's daughter.
(c) Norday's shopkeeper.
(d) Norday's matchmaker.

3. How does the lord of Norday greet the ragged Norweigan sailors?
(a) Brings them into the community as husbands.
(b) Offers hospitality for one night.
(c) Locks them in the broch.
(d) Kills them all with arrows.

4. Who digs Olafson's grave?
(a) Janet Olafson.
(b) Pastor Inge.
(c) Geordie Wylie.
(d) The whole town.

5. What is the place named Ingle?
(a) County seat.
(b) Ragnarson's farm.
(c) Harbor bar.
(d) Village store.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do villagers laugh at Albert Laird's announcement that his cradle is for Millie Smith?

2. What is the name of the shepherd who lives up in the high mountain pass in chapter 2?

3. What does Albert Laird make for Olafson?

4. What great Scottish battle takes place in 1314?

5. Where does Sir James MacTavish purchase the horse Seamus?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the title of chapter 3 refer to?

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

4. Why does Isa Estquoy know more than the minister and doctor about the community of Norday?

5. What reaction does Jacob's wife, Rena, have to arriving on Norday Island?

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

7. What sorts of food do Thorfinn and Sir James MacTavish eat on their way to Stirling Castle?

8. When headed down the Volga River what does the crew of the Solan Goose eat?

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

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

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