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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 inscribed on the temple altar in the Temple of Mithras?
(a) Mithrae Recipito.
(b) Merlin Invicto.
(c) Mithrae Invicto.
(d) Mithras Enchantine.

2. What is the name of the hillsmen's leader?
(a) Urien.
(b) Raven.
(c) Dragon.
(d) Llyd.

3. What does Merlin first intend to do with the holy man's chapel, but then changes his mind?
(a) He plans to give it to one of the monasteries near King Uther's castle.
(b) He plans to give it to Arthur.
(c) He plans to burn it.
(d) He plans to give it to one of the monasteries near Count Ector's castle.

4. What is Merlin's proper name?
(a) Bryn Myrddin.
(b) Myrddin Emrys.
(c) Merlin Emrys.
(d) Emrys Ambrosius.

5. Why has Uther summoned Merlin to his camp, and why does he want to speak with Merlin?
(a) About his wife.
(b) About his rule and his future.
(c) About his unborn child.
(d) About his enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Arthur born?

2. Why does Stilicho stay behind at Merlin's cave?

3. What is Arthur's younger sister's name?

4. Why does Merlin feel that he still cannot spend time in one place nor give any information on Arthur?

5. Where is Ector's castle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Four men come to visit Merlin at Bryn Myrddin, claiming they are sent by King Uther. Merlin knows that this is not true. How does he know?

2. What does Uther reveal to Merlin about his injury? How does this effect his concern for Arthur?

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

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

5. How does Merlin come to know the Old Ones in the forest?

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. What are some of the extraordinary qualities attributed to Merlin? How many, if any, of them are true? What is the truth about Merlin?

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