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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is hanged and then burned while still alive as the ultimate punishment?
(a) Cynric.
(b) Eilan.
(c) Dieda.
(d) Gaius.

2. Who comes back in order to seek out Eilan, though they find themselves watching a ritual?
(a) Gaius.
(b) Ardanos.
(c) Marcellius.
(d) Cynric.

3. Who has Eilan seen as a high priestess herself, with a group of priestesses around her?
(a) Caillean.
(b) Senara.
(c) Herself.
(d) Dieda.

4. Who does Dieda believe should not be in the Forest House, thinking it to be a stupid and shameful plan?
(a) Adornos.
(b) Gaius.
(c) Gawen.
(d) Arch Druid.

5. Who is sent away just as he/she finds out that Julia is pregnant again?
(a) Gaius.
(b) Eilan.
(c) No one.
(d) Marcellius.

6. Who refuses to go away with Gaius when he is sent away at this point of the story?
(a) Senara.
(b) Dieda.
(c) Eilan.
(d) Cynric.

7. Whose child do the women in the house think Gawen is?
(a) Dieda.
(b) Caillean.
(c) Mairi.
(d) Eilan.

8. Who does Gaius go back to see, on the pressure of his soon-to-be new wife, in order to make sure the love is gone?
(a) Senara.
(b) Eilan.
(c) Constance.
(d) Julia.

9. Who has escaped from Roman custody, though no one is quite sure where he is at this point of the story?
(a) Gaius.
(b) Mauri.
(c) Cynric.
(d) Gawen.

10. Who is the other person besides Caillean who has been seen in the role of the high priestess?
(a) No one.
(b) Eilan.
(c) Senara.
(d) Dieda.

11. In the battle, who fights under General Agricola, according to the description in the book?
(a) Cynric.
(b) Ardanos.
(c) Gaius.
(d) Regalua.

12. Whose attention does Gaius get when he arrives to find where Eilan is?
(a) No one's.
(b) Lhiannon's.
(c) Caillean's.
(d) Dieda's.

13. What does Julia become obsessed with, even though the rest of the family is less than pleased?
(a) Food.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Books.
(d) Riches.

14. Who comes to take the baby away from Eilan, though there is already a plan in place to get the baby back?
(a) Calliean.
(b) Lhiannon.
(c) Arch Druid.
(d) Gaius.

15. Since _______ has also disappeared, many of the women in the house believe that the baby might be hers too.
(a) Lhiannon.
(b) Eilan.
(c) Dieda.
(d) Sensara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eilan says that it is not until the _________ generation will Rome depart, and then she dies after the statement.

2. What is wrong with Eilan that she cannot perform the rites in the forest and Caillean has to step in?

3. Caillean decides that she does not need to run her house the same way and that her house will not serve the _________.

4. What does Eilan see with Caillean as the high priestess, as told to Caillean after the ritual?

5. Who does Eilan want to ask about the interpretation of the dream so that they can be sure what it means?

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