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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Merlyn in the Prologue?
(a) 80.
(b) 60.
(c) 40.
(d) 20.

2. What is little Arthur heir to?
(a) Camulod.
(b) Pendragon.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) Cornwall.

3. Where does Ambrose tell Merlyn he plans to stay in Chapter 6?
(a) Outside in the forest.
(b) Camulod.
(c) Erin.
(d) Rome.

4. 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 fraud.
(c) As a family member.
(d) Hesitatingly.

5. What wild animal attacks the group in Chapter 11?
(a) An unruly alligator.
(b) An enraged boar.
(c) A ferocious cougar of some kind.
(d) An injured bear.

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

7. For whom do Merlyn and Ambrose plan an elaborate funeral in Chapter 8?
(a) Arthur's wet nurse.
(b) Popilius.
(c) Donuil.
(d) Merlyn's aunt.

8. What astounds everyone about Merlyn and Ambrose?
(a) That they have the exact same wounds -- but from different battles.
(b) How deep their hatred is for each other.
(c) That the have the same birthday.
(d) How much they look alike.

9. What kind of romantic relationships make Merlyn uncomfortable in the beginning of "The Saxon Shore"?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) Any romantic relationships at all.
(c) Heterosexual relationships.
(d) Anything other than heterosexual relationships.

10. Who wants to join Donuil and Merlyn on their trip to Eire?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Lucanus.
(c) Ironhair.
(d) Merlyn's aunt.

11. Who is Donuil?
(a) Merlyn's father.
(b) A brother of Merlyn's.
(c) A stepbrother of Meryln's.
(d) A friend of Merlyn's.

12. How does Merlyn react when teased by Lucanus about his attraction to Ludmilla?
(a) He teases Lucanus right back.
(b) He ignores it, as his mother advised many years ago.
(c) He gets absoultely furious and starts a fight.
(d) He immediately denies it.

13. What warning does Merlyn give Ironhair after their confrontation in Chapter 6?
(a) This is a trick question; there is no such confrontation in Chapter 6.
(b) Not to challenge him in the future.
(c) That he will spend the rest of his life in jail for what he did.
(d) That he will one day seek revenge for these actions.

14. What gift does Merlyn give one of the lepers in the leper colony?
(a) A box of candles.
(b) A large box of biscuits.
(c) A fur coat.
(d) A gallon of mead.

15. What does Merlyn suspect Uther of doing?
(a) Killing Arthur's mother.
(b) Killing Merlyn's beloved wife.
(c) Killing Arthur's sister.
(d) Killing Merlyn's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of description does Athol want from Merlyn in the beginning of Chapter 14?

2. How does Ambrose react to the beauty and power of Camulod?

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

4. What item from the animal in Chapter 11 does Dedalus keep?

5. What does Merlyn do when he finds Uther's body?

(see the answer keys)

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