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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another name for the Goddess who is revealed to a girl in the pool of water?
(a) The Priestess.
(b) The Lady.
(c) Mother.
(d) The High Priestess.

2. Who has been captured by the Romans, the man who is the husband of Mairi?
(a) Pertro.
(b) Ardanos.
(c) Rhodri.
(d) Cynric.

3. Why are the girls leaving an offering to the Goddess outside in the woods?
(a) A new child.
(b) Their moon cycle.
(c) No reason.
(d) Beltane.

4. Who believes that Gaius has abandoned her and becomes very upset with him?
(a) Dieda.
(b) Mairu.
(c) Eilan.
(d) Lhiannon.

5. Who is unnerved by the deaths that happen as a result of the stampede, so much so that he faints?
(a) Gaius.
(b) Ardanos.
(c) Cynric.
(d) Bodyguard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of stampede interrupts the Beltane ritual that Gaius is able to see?

2. Who is the current high priestess of the Forest House at the beginning of the story?

3. Who decided to adopt a young British/Roman girl that the Fellowship of the Raven has asked her to take in?

4. Who finds that Eilan's house has been burned and charred when they come to find her?

5. Who comes to help with the birth as that is one of the roles of the priestesses of the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Eilan and Dieda doing out in the middle of the woods when they are described at the start of the story?

2. What has happened to Gaius when Eilan and Dieda come upon him in the forest?

3. What is the significance of the name 'Gawen' when Gaius decides to use it to cover up his real identity?

4. What is the culmination of the initiation ceremony that the priestesses have at night?

5. Why doesn't Caillean want to be a high priestess, as she reveals to Eilan in the story?

6. What is complicated about the selection of a high priestess, even though Lhiannon has seen Caillean in the role?

7. What does Gaius learn about Cynric when he begins to learn about his life?

8. What does Caillean reveal about her past when she is talking with Eilan after the raiders come?

9. What are the three visions that Eilan has when she is looking in the pool during her initiation?

10. What is the dream that Caillean has when the story first opens, of events that happened in the past?

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