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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 do the Norday villagers use to attack from the broch?
(a) Silence and hunger.
(b) Stones and arrows.
(c) Hot water and long whips.
(d) Muskets and rifles.

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

3. Who does Jacob Olafson bring back with him to Norday Island?
(a) Mara, a seal wife.
(b) Rena, an Indian from Canada.
(c) John, his son.
(d) Will, his father.

4. Where is Mr. Simon hoping to go on vacation with Miss Cameron?
(a) Africa.
(b) Brittany.
(c) New York City.
(d) Italy.

5. On what day of the week does Olafson die?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Monday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men of Norday clean their pipes with?

2. Who is the poorest man in Norday?

3. What happens if the Scottish soldiers at Stirling Castle can capture an English lord?

4. What is Hector Drummond known for?

5. What does the knight carry with him to his destination in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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