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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What affects Eilan powerfully during the ritual she must perform for others?
(a) Potions.
(b) Apples.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Words.

2. What is the sex/sexes of the child/children that Gaius and Julia have prematurely?
(a) Girl.
(b) Boy.
(c) Two boys.
(d) Two girls.

3. Who seems to inaccurately translate some of the words of the priestess during the ritual that nearly kills the priestess?
(a) Eilan.
(b) Caillean.
(c) Lhiannon.
(d) Ardanos.

4. Who leads the Roman charge when Eilan is in the middle of the rites and is taken by the Goddess?
(a) Mercellius.
(b) Cynric.
(c) Adornos.
(d) Gaius.

5. What does Eilan see with Caillean as the high priestess, as told to Caillean after the ritual?
(a) Stonehenge.
(b) Glastonbury Tor.
(c) A wading pool.
(d) Isle of Apples.

6. Who is taken to a hut in the woods as she is nearing the end of her pregnancy?
(a) Caillean.
(b) Dieda.
(c) Eilan.
(d) Lhiannon.

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

8. What does the Goddess predict at Beltane, which comes true surprisingly quickly?
(a) Changes.
(b) Blessings.
(c) Births.
(d) Disasters.

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

10. Eilan interprets the dream differently and thinks that maybe she will be departing soon to the __________.
(a) Rites.
(b) Summer Country.
(c) Belate ritual.
(d) New home.

11. Who returns from Ireland from spending time learning poetry and music, then comes back to the Forest House to teach it to others?
(a) Dieda.
(b) Caillean.
(c) Gaius.
(d) Eilan.

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

13. A man in the group of people that Caillean meets on the way to the Summer Country all serve _________.
(a) Goddess.
(b) Rome.
(c) Athens.
(d) God.

14. The ritual of the __________ kills some of those who undertake it, which is why it is a fitting test of a new high priestess.
(a) Blessing.
(b) War.
(c) Oracle.
(d) Rage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to visit Eilan when she is about to given birth, though she is darker and angry?

2. Which of the priestesses is thought to be the one who was gone away?

3. Gaius decides that he wants to adopt a son with ________, so he goes to the Forest House.

4. What does Julia become obsessed with, even though the rest of the family is less than pleased?

5. What kind of feast is happening at the end of this section of the story?

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