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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does King Edward ask Alfrida through Gunner?
(a) Would she marry Gunner.
(b) Which property she would like as her Dower House.
(c) Why did you murder my father.
(d) Would she kindly mind her own business.

2. How does Alfrida react to the insistence that Ethelred go to the coronation?
(a) She hits Alfhere in the face with all her might.
(b) She breaks down and sobs.
(c) She runs away.
(d) She locks herself in her Bower.

3. What is mixed into Rumon's draught?
(a) Hemlock.
(b) Nightshade.
(c) Arsenic.
(d) Rat poison.

4. What does Merewyn ask the Abbot?
(a) Who is king now?
(b) Where Rumon is.
(c) Would he baptize her children?
(d) Could she stay at the Abbey?

5. What did Athelwald tell the King about Earl Ordgar's daughter?
(a) The girl was the most beautiful and most gracious he had ever encountered.
(b) The girl was skinny, pock marked, ill mannered and altogether unsuitable for a King.
(c) She refused to see him.
(d) She was already married and with child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Merewyn and her family live?

2. What does Merewyn want Sigurd to do while at the Althing?

3. Who sails into Greenland in June of 1000?

4. With whom does Dunstan suggest that Rumon marry and have children?

5. What announcement does Alfrida want to make at dinner that evening after Yuletide?

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