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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Rage.
(c) War.
(d) Oracle.

3. What is wrong with Eilan that she cannot perform the rites in the forest and Caillean has to step in?
(a) Pregnancy.
(b) Cramps.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Pneumonia.

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

5. Which of the women does not realize that Lhiannon is dying, according to the book?
(a) Caillean.
(b) Lhiannon.
(c) Dieda.
(d) Eilan.

6. Julia decides that she and Gaius should not have anymore ____________.
(a) Grapes.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Books.
(d) Children.

7. For how long does Eilan want to keep the girls in order to help them adjust?
(a) Two years.
(b) One year.
(c) One week.
(d) Three years.

8. Eilan says that it is not until the _________ generation will Rome depart, and then she dies after the statement.
(a) Tenth.
(b) Ninth.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Third.

9. Who tells Marcellius that his granddaughter was raped at the start of Chapter 16?
(a) Clotinus.
(b) Rogalus.
(c) Ardanos.
(d) No one.

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

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

12. Who begins to feel a weakness in her brain and she also begins to wonder if she might die?
(a) Julia.
(b) Dieda.
(c) Eilan.
(d) Caillean.

13. Who does Eilan want to ask before accepting the two new girls into the Forest House?
(a) Dieda.
(b) Caillean.
(c) Ardanos.
(d) Gaius.

14. Eilan lets Gaius know she cannot marry him because she is __________, even if he were to marry and to divorce his wife.
(a) A high priestess.
(b) Already married.
(c) A mother.
(d) Not in love with him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the sex/sexes of the child/children that Gaius and Julia have prematurely?

2. In the battle, who fights under General Agricola, according to the description in the book?

3. Who does Dieda believe should not be in the Forest House, thinking it to be a stupid and shameful plan?

4. Who will perform the next ritual in order to see if she is worthy of the new role of being a high priestess?

5. Who is to go and start her own house in the Summer Country, according to Eilan?

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