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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Donuil suggest he and Merlyn bring as gifts to his father back in Eire?
(a) Honey.
(b) Candles.
(c) Roses.
(d) Mead.

2. Who is Lucanus?
(a) Merlyn's sworn enemy.
(b) Merlyn's son.
(c) Merlyn's friend and a physician.
(d) A woman Merlyn's mother hopes he will marry.

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

4. Why are Merlyn and his men nervous about the planned cavalry display for Athol and his men?
(a) The horses spook easily in the new land.
(b) Their horses are hungry and not acting right.
(c) They don't have their usual amount of horses and riders.
(d) They don't want to seem as showing off too much.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sends a group of men to attack Merlyn and his group at the end of Chapter 10?

2. What does Merlyn wear to the second meeting of the Council?

3. What relationship do Lucanus and Ludmilla have?

4. Who is Mungo?

5. Where is Merlyn stabbed after the funeral in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is King Athol so amazed at the candles Merlyn and Donuil bring him?

2. What connection does Merlyn realize he has with his captors in Chapter 1?

3. What is Merlyn's main mission as described in the Prologue in "The Saxon Shore"?

4. What does Merlyn tell the Council about his return in Chapter 4?

5. What does Connor tell Merlyn, when he is his captive, he is going to do with Merlyn and baby Arthur?

6. What do Merlyn and his men realize after they are attacked by, and then kill, the wild boar in Chapter 11?

7. What impression does Merlyn have of the leper colony after he leaves?

8. How does Merlyn come to realize this his cousin may not have killed his wife?

9. What does Merlyn believe that Arthur's destiny is?

10. What is the history of Excalibur as described in Chapter 4?

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