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

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

3. Who made Excalibur?
(a) Merlyn's aunt.
(b) The local blacksmith.
(c) Merlyn's uncle.
(d) Arthur himself.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What astounds everyone about Merlyn and Ambrose?

2. When Ambrose and Ludmilla come to check on Merlyn after he is stabbed, what is he doing when they think he is sleeping?

3. Who does Merlyn suspect is behind his stabbing?

4. Who gives the death blow to the animal that interrupts the cavalry show for Athol and his men?

5. What wild animal attacks the group in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What prevents Merlyn from realizing that he is not, in fact, alone when he goes to visit a secret vale in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

6. How do the men of Eire react to the size of the boar tusks that Dedalus shows them in Chapter 12?

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

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

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

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

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