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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. How does Athol react to the gifts Merlyn and Donuil bring?
(a) He is amazed.
(b) He is furious because he sees them as godly.
(c) He doesn't really understand them, actually.
(d) He is so humbled by them, he weeps.

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

3. Who is Athol?
(a) Arthur's wet nurse.
(b) Merlyn's confidant.
(c) Dedalus' brother.
(d) The king in Eire.

4. How many days after his stabbing does Merlyn finally leave for Eire?
(a) 30.
(b) 14.
(c) 9.
(d) 2.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Merlyn and his men nervous about the planned cavalry display for Athol and his men?

2. Where does Merlyn go to grieve his wife in Chapter 6?

3. What promise does Merlyn make to the dead Uther?

4. What does Lucius Varo do for a living?

5. What does Merlyn say to Ambrose when he asks, in Chapter 6, if the infantry and the cavalry every combine?

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