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

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

3. Why do Morgause's princes assume that Arthur has sent for them?
(a) They will claim land inheritances.
(b) They can claim their places as Knights of the Round Table.
(c) They will claim they are Arthur's son.
(d) They will claim inheritances and become Knights of the Round Table.

4. Who are the princes put in the care of?
(a) Cam.
(b) Ca.
(c) Cee.
(d) Cei.

5. As time goes on, what does Mordred wonder about his place at the castle?
(a) If he will inherit anything as the bastard son of King Lot.
(b) Whether or not Morgause will ever love him.
(c) If he will be pushed out.
(d) If he should be at the castle at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Mordred become more valuable to the Queen at the end of Chapter 7?

2. Who finds Mordred at Sula and Brude's house and brings him back to the castle?

3. Why are Gawain and Mordred now friends?

4. What surprises Queen Morgause about Mordred as he comes to court in Chapter 2?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. As the rest of the court learns that Mordred is the son of King Arthur, how do they act toward Mordred?

2. What shocking action does the Queen perform in Chapter 9? What does this tell Mordred about the Queen?

3. Who has come to love Morgause and how were they able to meet her while she was in seclusion?

4. Why is Morgause sent to a convent instead of back to the islands?

5. Why does Mordred think that Morgause is lying about her treatment at the convent?

6. Where does the ship stop before continuing onto Camelot?

7. Why is Queen Morgan allowed to act in whatever manner she deems necessary?

8. What does Mordred slowly begin to understand about his place as King Lot's bastard?

9. When Arthur reveals that Morgasue is Mordred's mother, how does Mordred react?

10. What does Mordred overhear that makes him continue to question Queen Morgause's true nature?

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