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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mordred save from falling off the cliffs near his home?
(a) Gawain.
(b) Gabran.
(c) Gaheris.
(d) Agravain.

2. What is revealed about Arthur's supposed slaughtering of infants during Morgan and Morgause's meeting?
(a) Arthur still wants Mordred dead.
(b) Merlin suggested the killings.
(c) King Lot ordered the killing.
(d) Arthur did not slaughter infants.

3. What are all the Orkney princes aware of?
(a) Gabran's seedy presence.
(b) Their mother's attraction to Mordred.
(c) A new life they will lead.
(d) Tension and turmoil in the castle.

4. Why was Mordred sent to Brude and Sula (or what were they told by the Queen)?
(a) King Lot wanted nothing to do with the boy.
(b) She could not raise him with her other children.
(c) The Queen's enemies were Merlin and King Arthur.
(d) Mordred has a lethal disease.

5. What will the two men try to live with and forget?
(a) Queen Guinevere.
(b) Merlin's prophecy.
(c) The Orkney princes' unruliness.
(d) Morgause's manipulations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rheged?

2. Who are the princes put in the care of?

3. How is Arthur's character depicted in the novel?

4. Now that his foster family has been taken away from him, what does Mordred realize about his future?

5. What do Chapters 8-9 foreshadow?

(see the answer key)

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