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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Merlyn's aunt respond when he tells her about Arthur's destiny?
(a) She is frightened.
(b) She doesn't believe his tall tales.
(c) She is jealous.
(d) She is very proud.

2. What important thing(s) do Donuil, Merlyn, and Athol discuss in Athol's tent.
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) The importance of Arthur.
(c) Warfare and cavalry.
(d) That the king's daughter has been killed.

3. In what perspective is "The Saxon Shore" written?
(a) Third person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Fourth person.
(d) First person.

4. What does Ambrose tell Merlyn his men fight like?
(a) Barbarians.
(b) Dragons.
(c) Saxons.
(d) Women.

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

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

7. Why is Merlyn considering celibacy?
(a) So he can focus his energy on raising Arthur.
(b) So he can stop being so distracted by women.
(c) So he doesn't have to worry about a woman stealing his money.
(d) Because he could never love someone as much as he loved his wife.

8. When Ironhair and Merlyn have a confrontation in Chapter 6, who wins?
(a) This is a trick question; there is no confrontation.
(b) No one; it is a draw.
(c) Ironhair.
(d) Merlyn.

9. What kind of description does Athol want from Merlyn in the beginning of Chapter 14?
(a) A description of the kind of woman his daughter had become.
(b) A description of the lands between Camulod and Glevum.
(c) A description of the future as Merlyn sees it in his dreams.
(d) A description of how horrible the leper colony was.

10. What does the wild animal that interrupts the beginning of the cavalry show do second?
(a) Attack the crowds.
(b) Stand up straight and scare everyone to pieces.
(c) Eat a baby.
(d) Kill a man.

11. How do Athol's friends view his leprosy?
(a) With silent horror.
(b) This is a trick question; Athol doesn't have leprosy.
(c) With disgust.
(d) With understanding and compassion.

12. Who gives the death blow to the animal that interrupts the cavalry show for Athol and his men?
(a) Merlyn.
(b) Athol.
(c) Donuil.
(d) Sheelagh.

13. How does the group first see Eire in Chapter 11?
(a) Through burning-bright sunlight.
(b) Through the rain.
(c) Through the darkness.
(d) Through the fog.

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

15. What prevents the men from traveling around Eire as they had hoped?
(a) They ran out of gas for their cars.
(b) There are police everywhere.
(c) They must travel only at night.
(d) There are no roads.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is Popilius?

4. Who is Athol's daughter?

5. How does Athol feel when Donuil returns to Eire?

(see the answer keys)

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