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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ebraucus sails to Gaul where he does what?
(a) Asks to meet with the King.
(b) Asks for help from the king.
(c) Searches for a wife.
(d) Ransacks cities, gaining great wealth for himself.

2. Caesar agrees to accept homage and tribute from Cassivelaunus after what happens?
(a) His men begin to starve to death.
(b) Caesar threatens Cassivelaunus.
(c) Androgeus threatens him with harm.
(d) Cassivelaunus begs for help.

3. For how long does Gwendolen reign?
(a) Twelve years.
(b) Fifteen years.
(c) Thirteen years.
(d) Fourteen years.

4. Brutus sends a letter to King Pandrasus asking for what?
(a) An army.
(b) Financial support.
(c) Reinforcements.
(d) The freedom of the slaves.

5. Why are these rivers so important?
(a) They are a home for many wild animals.
(b) They are beautiful.
(c) They supply clean water to villages.
(d) They bring goods and trade from all over the world.

6. Three longships arrive from Saxony, a province in Germany, bearing two men of huge stature. Who are these men?
(a) Vortigern and Renwein.
(b) Vortimer and Voldemort.
(c) Aurelius and Utherpendragon.
(d) Hengist and Horsa.

7. Who are the original inhabitants that have been driven into the minority by the invasion of the others?
(a) The Gauls.
(b) The Saxons.
(c) The Britons.
(d) The Germans.

8. What does Cassivelaunus tell Caesar?
(a) The Britons will leave Britain.
(b) The Britons will pay tribute to him.
(c) The Britons will do as he asks.
(d) The Britons will fight to the death for their liberty.

9. To where does Caesar retreat?
(a) The forest.
(b) A tower he built in case he was forced to flee.
(c) The river.
(d) Rome.

10. How is Vortimer killed?
(a) His father drowns him.
(b) His mother poisons him.
(c) He is stabbed by his father.
(d) He is poisoned by an adviser.

11. Julius Caesar says that the Britons descend from the same stock as the Romans. What is the result of them living so far away?
(a) They must be degenerates.
(b) They must speak a different language.
(c) They must be more intelligent.
(d) They must have different traditions.

12. How does Arvirargus, Guiderius' brother, avenge him?
(a) He writes an angry letter to Claudius.
(b) He puts on the King's armor and extols the troops who have not realized that their leader is dead.
(c) He goes to Rome to confront Claudius.
(d) He buries his brother's body.

13. Who impregnates a niece of Aeneas' wife?
(a) Aeneas' grandson.
(b) Aeneas' son.
(c) Aeneas' cousin.
(d) Aeneas' nephew.

14. What happened when Caesar's ships arrive?
(a) They are warmly welcomed.
(b) They are destroyed by pirates.
(c) They are attacked.
(d) They are impaled on the stakes.

15. At the end of the Trojan War, Aeneas flees to where?
(a) Gaul.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) Greek.

Short Answer Questions

1. The British people soon become afraid of the swelling number of Saxons and turn to who for aide?

2. For how long does Madden rule?

3. Once Caesar receives the hostages, what does he do?

4. Now that Vortigern is married to his daughter, Hengist counsels the King to do what?

5. Geoffrey of Monmouth says he will relate to the reader what exactly?

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