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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 does Arthur NOT do when he is attacked at the sea shore?
(a) Communicates with Derfel.
(b) Worries about his own safety.
(c) Leaves his children.
(d) Takes prisoners.

2. Who are hired to get the women and children to safety when the reinforcements arrive?
(a) Couriers.
(b) Fishermen.
(c) Sailors.
(d) Soldiers.

3. How many enemy heads make up the ghost fence?
(a) 24.
(b) 48.
(c) 36.
(d) 12.

4. How many spearmen embark to protect the treasury and royal family at the end of the book?
(a) 174.
(b) 196.
(c) 163.
(d) 185.

5. Why does Queen Igraine stop talking with Derfel?
(a) She is called away.
(b) She falls ill.
(c) She goes into hiding.
(d) She gives birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who announces the new king after Mordred dies?

2. What is the name of Derfel's daughter who is killed?

3. What signals the coming of the Saxons at the end of the book?

4. What message does Derfel ask Gwydre to give to Arthur at the end of the book?

5. Who does Argante marry after Arthur returns to Guinevere?

Short Essay Questions

1. What deformity of the narrator is revealed at the beginning of Part 3?

2. What causes the forces of Nimue and Mordred to break up?

3. What does Morgan have Derfel do to cure his wife?

4. What trade does Arthur start learning after the battle against the Saxons is won?

5. How does Derfel choose to kill Lancelot, and why?

6. What does the bishop give to Derfel before the last battle, and why?

7. What is the ghost fence?

8. What is the main cause of the delay of leaving Camlann?

9. What does Derfel make sure of before he kills Aelle and why?

10. What are some of Taliesin's talents?

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