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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 is the name of the pagan God of Air to which the common people still do obeisance?
(a) Myrddin.
(b) Myrddin Emry.
(c) Galapas.
(d) Bryn.

2. What does Uther reveal to Merlin about his injury?
(a) None of these.
(b) The injury is not real.
(c) The injury has left him impotent.
(d) The injury has humiliated him and threatened his rule.

3. Why does Merlin feel that he still cannot spend time in one place nor give any information on Arthur?
(a) He is worried about outlaws who have been tracking him.
(b) He is worried about spies and Arthur's safety.
(c) He is worried about Uther's men.
(d) He is worried about his own safety.

4. Where is Ector's castle?
(a) Tintagel in Rheged.
(b) Tintagel in Bryn Myrddin.
(c) Galava in Cornwall.
(d) Galava in Rheged.

5. Whose eyes does Merlin believe Arthur has?
(a) Ambrosius.
(b) Ygraine.
(c) Uther.
(d) Gorlois.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Ralf take Arthur to Count Ector?

2. Who does Merlin find fighting off three men on horseback?

3. What profession does Merlin assume when they are waiting at the inn to go to the castle?

4. Where does Merlin tell Stilicho to tell people he is if they come looking for Merlin while he is gone?

5. What piece of history does Merlin teach Arthur and his companion at the chapel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What saves Merlin and company while they are traveling through the Perilous Forest? How? Does the author lead the reader to believe that this is an ordinary occurrence?

2. How does Arthur finally meet Merlin? How does Merlin recognize the boy?

3. Why does Merlin spend so much time traveling all over Europe? Where does he go? How long is he gone?

4. Merlin admits to the reader for the first time since the story began that he is apprehensive about meeting with the queen. Why?

5. Merlin asks the messenger to give him all the information he has on the world outside of Merlin's cave. He tells him about the war and the invading Saxons. What significance does this play to the story?

6. Why does Merlin seek out the holy man in the forest chapel?

7. How does Merlin find Macsen's sword?

8. What dream does Merlin have while traveling to the glass blower's hut in the forest? What is its significance?

9. Why does Merlin travel in disguise with the infant Arthur? What disguise does he assume?

10. What question does Bedwyr raise while at the chapel with Arthur and Merlin that others have not asked? How does Arthur respond?

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