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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Merlyn do when he finds Uther's body?
(a) Buries it.
(b) Looks for jewelry he can sell for food.
(c) Steals the clothes.
(d) Makes a funeral pyre for him.

5. In Chapter 1, what solidifies to Merlyn that he knows his captors?
(a) A scar he sees on one of the men's faces.
(b) His intuition.
(c) A dream.
(d) An image on the mast.

6. Who is Uther?
(a) Sheelagh's cousin.
(b) Merlyn's cousin.
(c) Yvonne's cousin.
(d) All of these answers are correct.

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

8. Who is Ambrose?
(a) Merlyn's son.
(b) Merlyn's cousin.
(c) Merlyn's uncle.
(d) Merlyn's stepbrother.

9. Who is Athol's daughter?
(a) Dedalus's secret lover.
(b) Donuil's aunt.
(c) Arthur's mother.
(d) Merlyn's deceased wife.

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

11. What relationship do Lucanus and Ludmilla have?
(a) They are lovers.
(b) They are siblings.
(c) Ludmilla is studying medicine under Lucanas.
(d) They hate each other, actually.

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

13. What does Merlyn say in response to Ambrose's assertions that Merlyn is a sorcerer?
(a) That he is but Ambrose needs to be more quiet about it.
(b) That such ideas are ridiculous.
(c) That he is sometimes and not others.
(d) That he isn't yet but he's very close to passing his test.

14. What wild animal prevents the beginning of the calvary show for Athol?
(a) A bear.
(b) A boar.
(c) A enormous snake.
(d) A lion.

15. Where does Merlyn go to grieve his wife in Chapter 6?
(a) Her favorite spring.
(b) The cemetery.
(c) A secret vale where they lived together.
(d) Her favorite tree just outside of town.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the wild animal that interrupts the beginning of the cavalry show do first?

4. What does Lucanus tell Merlyn he should fear about the lepers?

5. What do the men do with the wild animal that attacks them in Chapter 11?

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