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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When she is dreaming that she is hot, Madelyne believes she is where?
(a) In the sun at the hottest part of summer.
(b) In Africa.
(c) In purgatory or Hades.
(d) In a steam bath.

2. What is in the chapel that Madelyne wants to retrieve?
(a) Madelyne's best friend.
(b) Madelyne's prayer beads.
(c) Madelyne's burlap satchel.
(d) Madelyne's dagger.

3. Whose feelings is Madelyne protecting when she refuses to learn how to ride the gentle mare?
(a) Duncan's.
(b) Silenus's.
(c) James's.
(d) Adela's.

4. Is Madelyne pleased by Duncan's reaction to being followed?
(a) No. Madelyne is confused because Duncan just laughs.
(b) Yes. Madelyne is glad Duncan intends to kill Louddon so she is free.
(c) Yes. Madelyne is glad that the fighting finally commenses.
(d) No. Madelyne wants to flee and Duncan intends to fight.

5. According to Chapter 10, what does Madelyne take to the stables each afternoon?
(a) A ribbon to tie back her hair.
(b) A carrot.
(c) Her riding crop.
(d) A clump of sugar.

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

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

8. According to Gilard, what powerful lord has the king's ear?
(a) Duncan.
(b) Gilard.
(c) Edmund.
(d) Louddon.

9. During the battle at Louddon's castle, Madelyne decides she tries to save whom?
(a) Louddon's soldiers.
(b) The bailey soldiers.
(c) Louddon.
(d) Sleeping servants.

10. Why does Madelyne name Duncan's horse Silenus?
(a) The horse is strong and silent.
(b) Silenus means "stand still for me" in Latin.
(c) The horse is silvery-white in color.
(d) Silenus is the name of a god that is wild and untaimed.

11. 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 Madelyne does not know how to ride a horse properly.
(d) Because Duncan issues a command for the horse to stay still.

12. What does Edmund want to do for Adela to help her heal?
(a) Allow Adela to threaten Madelyne with a knife.
(b) Send for Catherine.
(c) Send Adela to live with Catherine.
(d) Keep Madelyne away from Adela.

13. After the battle, when all of Loudon's soldiers are vanquished, what does Madelyne ask of Duncan?
(a) Madelyne asks Duncan to put out the fire.
(b) Madelyne asks Duncan to release the horses.
(c) Madelyne asks Duncan to let her show him the secret passage.
(d) Madelyne asks Duncan to kill her.

14. How long does Madelyne sleep after Edmund sews up her wound?
(a) Until the next afternoon.
(b) Two days.
(c) Fitfully for the next several days.
(d) Almost twenty-four hours straight.

15. For whom does Madelyne take in the garments and why?
(a) Catherine, because she is losing weight.
(b) Herself, so she has warm clothing.
(c) Adela, because she is losing weight.
(d) Gerty, because she is poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Madelyne feed outside the walls of the fortress?

2. Why does Duncan return to the hall after Madelyne goes to bed?

3. There is a quote from which famous book at the beginning of Chapter One?

4. How does Madelyne avoid being knocked from her seat on the horse by branches?

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

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