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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, The Saxon Shore: Chapters 15-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Fin react to Merlyn when they first meet?
(a) He loses his temper but no one can figure out why.
(b) He is very rude to him.
(c) Like he has known him forever.
(d) Like he knows he is a spy.

2. When Ironhair and Merlyn have a confrontation in Chapter 6, who wins?
(a) No one; it is a draw.
(b) Merlyn.
(c) This is a trick question; there is no confrontation.
(d) Ironhair.

3. What does the wild animal that interrupts the beginning of the cavalry show do first?
(a) Kill a man.
(b) Stand up straight and scare everyone to pieces.
(c) Eat a baby.
(d) Attack the crowds.

4. Why does Merlyn often try to avoid his dreams?
(a) Because they are so silly.
(b) Because they are dark, frightening, and prophetic.
(c) Because they show him how rotten and cruel he is inside.
(d) Because they are so sad -- and mostly about his dead wife.

5. What kind of description does Athol want from Merlyn in the beginning of Chapter 14?
(a) A description of the future as Merlyn sees it in his dreams.
(b) A description of the lands between Camulod and Glevum.
(c) A description of how horrible the leper colony was.
(d) A description of the kind of woman his daughter had become.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose tell Merlyn his men fight like?

2. Why does Sheelagh ask Merlyn's opinion of Donuil?

3. Which two people in Eire does Merlyn have an instant aversion to?

4. What major factor enables Merlyn, Donuil, and Athol to successfully defend themselves from the surprise attack?

5. How many days after his stabbing does Merlyn finally leave for Eire?

(see the answer key)

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