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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 Merlyn wear to the second meeting of the Council?
(a) Nothing; he wants to shock them.
(b) Rags.
(c) His finest business suit.
(d) Garb denoting his status.

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

3. Who does Merlyn suspect is behind his stabbing?
(a) Donuil.
(b) Popilius.
(c) Ambrose.
(d) Ironhair.

4. How does Merlyn's aunt react when she sees him in Chapter 4?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) She is very angry.
(c) She simply doesn't believe it, since she thought he was dead.
(d) She is very happy.

5. What does Merlyn tell Ambrose about his ascent to power in Chapter 7?
(a) That it is time to move from a monarchy to a democracy.
(b) That he is King now even though he doesn't want it.
(c) That he will be second-in-command as soon as he is ready.
(d) That he must cede the thrown to Arthur.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Athol come to accept Merlyn at the conclusion of Chapter 13?

2. Why does Merlyn often try to avoid his dreams?

3. How does Merlyn react to Lucanus's request that he visit the leper colony?

4. What do Connor and Merlyn talk about when the first converse together?

5. What warning does Merlyn give Ironhair after their confrontation in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Merlyn imagine the leper colony to be like before he arrives?

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

3. Why does Merlyn remove the ring from around baby Arthur's neck in Chapter 1?

4. Why does Ambrose decide to stay in Camulod in Chapter 6?

5. When Merlyn and his men arrive in Eire, how do they decide to proceed north?

6. How does Merlyn first interpret his dream in which he is flying right before he and his men are supposed to leave for Eire?

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

8. What does King Athol do to Finn when he learns that he has been rude to Merlyn?

9. What does Merlyn tell his captors about how he came across the baby Arthur?

10. What is surprising about Donuil's choice to stay in Camulod?

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