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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. What animal does Axl see in Chapter 13?

2. Where does the monk Edwin travels with in Chapter 8, say that Father Jonus told him to take Edwin?

3. Who made Edwin's shoes?

4. When Edwin gets to the top, what does he see on the inhospitable plain in Chapter 12?

5. In Chapter 6, where does Beatrice have blood seeping?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who finds Edwin when he returns to the monastery in Chapter 8 and what does he do?

3. Where did Beatrice and Axl find shelter in Chapter 13?

4. In Chapter 12, what does Wistan want Edwin to promise?

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

6. What did Gawain remember about the death of his old comrade, Master Buel in "Gawain's Second Reverie"?

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

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

9. In Chapter 7, what is the chamber like that Axl, Beatrice, Edwin, and Gawain find at the end of the tunnel?

10. In Chapter 8, what does Edwin see when he reaches the central courtyard of the monastery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There seems to be a universal loss of memory of the people in the novel. What causes this amnesia? What was the purpose of the mist? Did the mist serve its purpose?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Wistan has a feeling of danger at the monastery. What are premonitions? What characters have premonitions? How do those premonitions come to pass? How do premonitions affect characters and their survival?

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