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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 color horse does Merlin see a nine-year-old boy riding toward the chapel?
(a) None of these.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Brown.

2. How many small hillsmen surround Merlin in the forest as he wakes?
(a) Ten.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Eight.

3. Where does Merlin tell Stilicho to tell people he is if they come looking for Merlin while he is gone?
(a) In Sicily.
(b) In Abba's Valley tending sheep.
(c) At the glass blower's hut in the forest.
(d) Traveling to Tintagel.

4. What does Merlin injure when he falls from his horse on a sunny day?
(a) His arm.
(b) His leg.
(c) His hand.
(d) His foot.

5. Where is Stilicho from originally?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Merlin feel when riding toward the castle once he has been summoned?

3. Who follows Arthur to the chapel in the woods when he meets Merlin?

4. Who does Uther tell Merlin that he has been told has died?

5. What is the name of the woods that Merlin and his troop ride through?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Merlin hide himself away in his cave for three months after returning to Bryn Myrddin?

2. Why does Merlin plan to take over the Chapel of the Green himself after the old hermit dies?

3. 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?

4. What plan do Merlin and Ygraine develop for Arthur after his birth? Why?

5. What does Ector tell Merlin of the other royal families in the area? Why are their activities important?

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

7. Why does Merlin feel that he cannot share information, even with Ahdjan, a relative, so far from Britain?

8. The spring after Arthur's twelfth birthday brings the rumblings of war to England. What happens?

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

10. Merlin meets Morgause, Uther's illegitimate daughter, after developing a medicine for the ailing Uther. What are Merlin's impressions of Morgause? Does the author give any indication that there is more to Morgause than is being revealed?

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