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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. Who wishes to stay in order to see Eilan's downfall, even though she is told that she can stay?
(a) Lhiannon.
(b) Senara.
(c) Caillean.
(d) Dieda.

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

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

4. 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) Julia.
(b) Constance.
(c) Eilan.
(d) Senara.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who begins to feel a weakness in her brain and she also begins to wonder if she might die?

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

4. Who returns from Ireland from spending time learning poetry and music, then comes back to the Forest House to teach it to others?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eilan's father ask her to do after she has performed the rites of the Oracle?

2. What happens during the next rites of the Oracle when Eilan takes the trance herbs again?

3. What do Julia and Gaius decide needs to happen in order for them to be married?

4. What does Senara refuse from Gaius when she is taking the two half-Roman girls to Marcellius?

5. What happens to the translations of Ardanos during the ritual of the Oracle?

6. What happens to cause the bodyguard to kill Cynric during a conversation with Eilan?

7. What is the dream that Caillean has at the start of this section, one that disturbs her greatly?

8. What causes the troops of Gaius to pause for a moment when they are in a charge?

9. What is the situation of the woman that Gaius meets at the beginning of Chapter 25?

10. What are some of the ways in which Caillean wants to run her new house differently from the Forest House?

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