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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Madelyne doing while she tells tales to Adela?
(a) Lugging a tunk up the stairs.
(b) Throwing dirty water out of the window.
(c) Cleaning and rearranging furnishings in Duncan's bedroom.
(d) Cleaning and rearranging furnishings in Adela's bedroom.

2. Why does Silenus not move during the battle?
(a) Because Silenus is overly tired from the journey.
(b) Because Silenus is spooked by the noise of battle.
(c) Because Duncan issues a command for the horse to stay still.
(d) Because Madelyne does not know how to ride a horse properly.

3. Duncan eats alone and not with the family and soldiers since when?
(a) Since he becomes lord of the manor.
(b) Since Adela is attacked.
(c) Since he is a small boy.
(d) Since his father dies and Mary takes ill.

4. When Duncan leaves Madelyne asleep in his own chamber, where does he go?
(a) To search out and kill the man who rapes Adela.
(b) To ride Silenus.
(c) To feed the wolves.
(d) To the lake for a ritualized swim.

5. Who appears at the entrance to the hall after Madelyn's first meal in the hall of Duncan's fortress, much to Madelyne's consternation?
(a) Adela.
(b) Louddon.
(c) Duncan.
(d) Gerty and Martha.

6. The story starts out in what year?
(a) 1001.
(b) 1099.
(c) 1035.
(d) 1066.

7. Why does Madelyne prefer death to humiliation?
(a) Madelyne is weak-minded.
(b) Madelyne is an excessively proud woman.
(c) Madeline is more afraid of rape than death.
(d) Madeline is more afraid of horses than Duncan.

8. Why does Madelyne end up in the middle of the battle?
(a) Duncan is too busy searching for Louddon to think of her safety.
(b) Louddon lures her into the middle of the battle.
(c) Duncan brings the battle to Madelyne.
(d) She inadvertently directs the horse into the center of the battle.

9. Where does Madelyne go after learning about Lady Eleanor?
(a) To the fields beyond the fortress.
(b) Outside to the fortress wall.
(c) To the lake.
(d) Up to her chamber.

10. Why does Duncan return to the hall after Madelyne goes to bed?
(a) To command cooperation from his brothers on his plan for Madelyne.
(b) To eat his first meal of the day.
(c) To sit with Adela while she eats.
(d) To talk some sense into Adela.

11. According to Chapter Two, how familiar is Madelyne with warfare?
(a) Madelyne is so terrified of warfare that she always hides.
(b) Madelyne is only skilled using a knife in battle.
(c) Madelyne fights with Louddon's soldiers when necessary.
(d) Madelyne never witnesses a battle.

12. What hope does Madelyne foster in Chapter Two after it is discovered that Louddon leaves the castle?
(a) That Duncan falls in love with her.
(b) That Duncan and his men leave.
(c) That Gilard keeps his language clean.
(d) That Gilard terrifies some other defenseless woman.

13. What horse does Duncan expect Madelyne to ride into battle?
(a) Silenus.
(b) A brown steed.
(c) A large white war horse.
(d) A gray dappled mare.

14. Whose eye does Madelyne blacken while she is sick?
(a) Gilard's.
(b) Edmond's.
(c) Duncan's.
(d) Louddon's.

15. Who does Madelyne try to punch in her dream?
(a) A demon.
(b) A warrior.
(c) A boar.
(d) A Cyclops.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the battle at Louddon's castle, Madelyne decides she tries to save whom?

2. What does Madelyne do after learning about Lady Eleanor?

3. How many men surround the captive?

4. What is hurled during family dinners in the hall?

5. Madelyne hears from Adela, and then from Duncan, what fact that she dismisses as incorrect?

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