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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 are the Varingers fed on a daily basis?
(a) Bear, goose and wild duck.
(b) Bread, cheese, olives and beer.
(c) Moose, elk and wolf meat.
(d) Sturgeon and wild geese.

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

3. Who does Madeline Olafson marry?
(a) Mr. Snoodie.
(b) Peedie Sabiston.
(c) Robert Brown.
(d) Jock Seatter.

4. What do the men of Norday clean their pipes with?
(a) Seagull feathers.
(b) Saltwater peter.
(c) Political argument.
(d) Lobster claws.

5. What does Jacob prefer over farming?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Working at the smithy.
(c) Writing books.
(d) Carving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jeremy Smith watching during the school lesson about brochs?

2. What job does Jock Seatter do in Norday?

3. What does Albert Laird make for Olafson?

4. Scottish is a fusion of what two languages?

5. What nationality was King Robert the Bruce?

Short Essay Questions

1. What brings Jacob Olafson's wife Rena out of her fearful, furtive ways and back into life?

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

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

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

5. What does the poorest man in Norday believe politically?

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

7. When Thorfinn and his father are in the smithy, the men are talking politics. What point of view does MacTavish take?

8. What is the general opinion of Thorfinn in the village of Norday?

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

10. Why does Thorfinn not know what the circular ruin is that stands on the shore a mere half mile from his home?

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