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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 Coll mean?
(a) The Secret Place.
(b) Undiscovered Lands.
(c) The Hidden Place.
(d) The Hidden Valley.

2. Who summons Merlin to Tintagel the second week of September?
(a) Ygraine.
(b) Galava.
(c) Marcia.
(d) Uther.

3. Where is Arthur living when he meets Merlin?
(a) Gorlois.
(b) Tintagel.
(c) Galava.
(d) Cornwall.

4. What is the name of the chamberlain who tells Merlin about the king's condition?
(a) Ralf.
(b) Lot.
(c) Lucan.
(d) Morgian.

5. What doctor, who Merlin knows, treats Merlin's injured hand?
(a) Jordan.
(b) Gorlois.
(c) Brithael.
(d) Gandar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Merlin plan to tell the king's soldiers they are coming from?

3. Who writes to Merlin to let him know that the queen is pregnant?

4. Where do Merlin and Ralf meet the king's soldiers?

5. Where is Ector's castle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the people concerned and apprehensive about Uther's health? Is it more than just concern for their king?

2. What story does Merlin tell the young goat herd who is caring for him after he injures his hand? Why does he tell him the story?

3. What is the significance of the star that shines the night that Arthur is born and the night he leaves the castle?

4. How does Merlin realize that the king's soldiers are closer than he thought? What does he plan to tell the soldiers when he and Ralf are found?

5. Why does the hermit at the Chapel of the Green feel comfortable telling Merlin about the story of Macsen's sword?

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

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

8. Moravik has a unique perspective of Merlin. What is it and why does she feel the way she does about him?

9. What parts of Arthur's upbringing do Merlin and Uther agree on? What parts do they not agree on? What is Merlin's solution to the problem?

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

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