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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. Where does Thorfinn wake up at the end of chapter 1?
(a) Bow of his father's yole.
(b) Soft hay on highest hill in Norday.
(c) Barn loft above the cattle.
(d) Shore of the ocean.

2. Why are there no windows in a broch?
(a) There is nothing to see.
(b) Windows are thought to be evil.
(c) The stones would collapse around the window.
(d) For protection from enemies.

3. When Sir James MacTavish arrives at the monastery what are the monks doing?
(a) Engaged in battle.
(b) Preparing to escape.
(c) Singing.
(d) Archery.

4. What are the names of Matthew Ragnarson's daughters?
(a) Isa, Tina and Bella.
(b) Rita, Mildred and Margaret.
(c) Rounda, Tilta and Frontario.
(d) Inga, Sigrid and Ragna.

5. What is the first meal the Eastern Emperor serves them?
(a) Unleavened bread and olive oil.
(b) Eggs, dolphin's fins, young eaglets and fruits.
(c) Cold porridge.
(d) Wafer thin slices of chocolate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What instrument does the boy poet of the broch play?

3. What is claimed and sealed for Scotland in 1314?

4. Who takes Thorfinn back from the Eastern Empire to Norday Island?

5. Who sails to Byzantine with Earl Rognvald of Orkney?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mr. Harcourt-Smithers place within the island community?

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

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

6. Why does the author call the gathering at the Norday blacksmith shop "the village parliament?"

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

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

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

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