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

2. What does the prior of the monastery feed Sir MacTavish and his squire?
(a) Communion wafers.
(b) Whiskey and ale.
(c) Cold soup and crackers.
(d) Grilled trout and new-fired bread.

3. What is the village opinion of Miss Cameron?
(a) Soft as a feather pillow.
(b) Quiet as a mouse.
(c) Sweet as candy.
(d) Bold as brass.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sign that the broch is being neglected?

2. Where does the Volga river take the Viking crew?

3. What does Matthew Ragnarson buy from the village store at the beginning of chapter 1?

4. What are the Varingers fed on a daily basis?

5. Where is King Robert's palace named Holyrood?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are the children bored on the field trip to the broch?

3. When Thorfinn drifts back into time, at the side of the broch ruin, how far back does he go and where is he?

4. Why did the broch on Norday island become a ruin?

5. What is the Solan Goose?

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

7. Why does Jacob Olafson run away on the day of his sister's wedding?

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

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

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

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