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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Wistan bruised in Chapter 10?

2. What does Edwin remember drinking in Chapter 8 before he fell asleep after helping Wistan?

3. Who brings Axl and Beatrice something to eat in Chapter 6?

4. What is the name of the person in Chapter 13 who told the children to feed their goats poisoned leaves?

5. What does Wistan think the monastery used to be in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what does Axl have to do to rescue Beatrice?

2. What does Axl remember about meeting Beatrice in Chapter 6?

3. What does Beatrice think her foot touches in Chapter 7, and what does Axl say that her foot touched?

4. Why can Axl and Beatrice not ride in a boat in Chapter 11, and how do they go down the river?

5. In Chapter 10, what did Wistan say about his relationship with Lord Brennus?

6. In Chapter 7, who do Axl, Beatrice, and Edwin encounter in the tunnel?

7. Where is the young monk taking Edwin in Chapter 8?

8. Why does Gawain remember that he took a woman into the battlefield in "Gawain's First Reverie"?

9. In "Gawain's Second Reverie," why does Axl insist on taking the goat to the giant's cairn?

10. In Chapter 8, what does Edwin remember seeing by a pond one day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conflict in a book is a struggle, usually between characters, but may also be a conflict with one’s self or with nature. Examine the conflicts in the novel and decide whether they are man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self, and if conflicts are external or internal. What type of conflicts occur most in the novel; and of these conflicts, are they external or internal?

Essay Topic 2

The novel takes place in Britain’s Dark Age. What is the genre of the novel and why?

Essay Topic 3

Point-of-view is how the author tells the story and allows readers to interpret characters and events. What two points of view are used in the novel? How does using those points of view affect what readers know about characters and events?

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