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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. Why can't the Vikings return to Sweden?
(a) King outlawed them for killing his casteelan.
(b) They long for adventure.
(c) They have forgotten how to speak Swedish.
(d) Enemies have taken over their village.

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

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

4. What nationality was King Robert the Bruce?
(a) Scottish.
(b) English.
(c) Irish.
(d) German.

5. What happens if the Scottish soldiers at Stirling Castle can capture an English lord?
(a) They will exchange him for ransom money.
(b) The lord will be married to one of their daughters.
(c) The English lord will improve their Scottish accent.
(d) They will sell him into slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jacob Olafson bring back with him to Norday Island?

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

3. What is the name of Willum Holm's horse?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some of the things that village people buy at Isa Estquoy's shop on Norday Island?

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

4. What is the scripture reading that the pastor from the Borders, Reverend Hector Drummond, saying?

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

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

7. When Sir James MacTavish is on his way to the battle of Bannockburn he meets a herdsman. What has the herdsman never heard of?

8. Why does the school teacher, Mr. Simon, have trouble paying for his groceries at the village shop in Norday?

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

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

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