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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, The Saxon Shore: Chapters 11-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucius Varo do for a living?
(a) He's a lawyer.
(b) He's a farmer.
(c) He's an ironsmith.
(d) He's some kind of banker.

2. What does Donuil suggest he and Merlyn bring as gifts to his father back in Eire?
(a) Roses.
(b) Mead.
(c) Honey.
(d) Candles.

3. Why are Merlyn and his men nervous about the planned cavalry display for Athol and his men?
(a) They don't want to seem as showing off too much.
(b) The horses spook easily in the new land.
(c) They don't have their usual amount of horses and riders.
(d) Their horses are hungry and not acting right.

4. When does Merlyn tell Ambrose that Arthur could become High King?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) When they are examining Excalibur.
(c) When they are both drunk, which was a mistake.
(d) When they are deep in the woods, where no one can hear.

5. How does Athol come to accept Merlyn at the conclusion of Chapter 13?
(a) Hesitatingly.
(b) As a fraud.
(c) As a family member.
(d) Not at all; he has never liked him and never will.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was "The Saxon Shore" originally published?

3. What does Merlyn say in response to Ambrose's assertions that Merlyn is a sorcerer?

4. What is little Arthur heir to?

5. What does Peter Ironhair do for a living?

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