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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 sea does the Volga empty into?
(a) Atlantic ocean.
(b) Japanese sea.
(c) Sea of time.
(d) Black sea.
2. What does Prince Boris serve at the feast for the main course?
(a) Head of a boar.
(b) Blood pudding.
(c) Casserole of hearts.
(d) Fried oysters.
3. Who digs Olafson's grave?
(a) The whole town.
(b) Janet Olafson.
(c) Pastor Inge.
(d) Geordie Wylie.
4. What do the Sea King sailors carry as weapons from ship to shore?
(a) Muskets and bullets.
(b) Iron axes and iron-tipped spears.
(c) Thin silver arrows and strong ironwood bows.
(d) A large copper canon.
5. What does Albert Laird make for Olafson?
(a) Raft.
(b) Tables.
(c) Clock.
(d) Coffin.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is King Robert's palace named Holyrood?
2. Who are the Varingers?
3. What are the names of Matthew Ragnarson's daughters?
4. Who doesn't show up for Madeline's wedding?
5. What is a sign that the broch is being neglected?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Thorfinn and his father are in the smithy, the men are talking politics. What point of view does MacTavish take?
2. When Sir James MacTavish is on his way to the battle of Bannockburn he meets a herdsman. What has the herdsman never heard of?
3. Why does the author call the gathering at the Norday blacksmith shop "the village parliament?"
4. What sorts of food do Thorfinn and Sir James MacTavish eat on their way to Stirling Castle?
5. Why does Isa Estquoy know more than the minister and doctor about the community of Norday?
6. In the Song of the Broch, how does Thorfinn describe the sheltering castle?
7. Why is the horse, Seamus, killed on the road to Stirling Castle?
8. When Thorfinn drifts back into time, at the side of the broch ruin, how far back does he go and where is he?
9. Why did the broch on Norday island become a ruin?
10. Why does Jacob Olafson run away on the day of his sister's wedding?
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