View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, The Saxon Shore: Chapters 19-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was "The Saxon Shore" originally published?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1788.

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

3. Where do Merlyn and his group stop on their way home to Camulod from Eire?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) The leper colony.
(c) Commingsdale.
(d) The shire.

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

5. How does Merlyn spend the day after the day he talks to Lucanus about being celibate in Chapter 6?
(a) He inspects the troops.
(b) He visits the sick.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) He goes for a ride on his horse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Sheelagh hesitant to share that she has prophetic dreams?

3. Who wins the shooting competition in Chapter 20?

4. Who made Excalibur?

5. What gift does Merlyn give one of the lepers in the leper colony?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 307 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample