Avalon Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Avalon Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Anya Seton
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Rumon and Merewyn suspect that Merewyn's mother is dead?
(a) Because they see no smoke rising from the chimney.
(b) Because she is not breathing.
(c) Because they check her pulse.
(d) Because they find her with a knife stuck in her chest.

2. What happens to make the Council want to crown King Edgar's choice to succeed him?
(a) The Queen.
(b) Their love for King Edgar.
(c) They see that Edward is the best choice.
(d) A miracle.

3. How does the Queen react to the King's decision as to whom he has chosen to succeed him?
(a) She also gives her blessing.
(b) She is too upset at the King's dying to react.
(c) She is in shock.
(d) She stalks out of the room in a rage.

4. How does Rumon differentiate the Prior from the other monks?
(a) The Prior introduces himself immediately.
(b) The Prior is the fattest.
(c) The Prior is the one in deepest prayer.
(d) Ruman can't tell the Prior from the other monks.

5. Why was Rumon sent to Glastonbury Abbey?
(a) He had to deliver a message for the King.
(b) He had a vision that told him he had to go there.
(c) He was discovered locked in an embrace with Queen Alfrida.
(d) He had to escape the romantic advances of Queen Alfrida.

6. At the beginning of Chapter 7, where is Merewyn living?
(a) At Glastonbury Abbey.
(b) With Alfrida.
(c) With her aunt, the Abbess Merwinna at Romsey.
(d) At Uther.

7. What do those whom the King has summoned find when they arrive at Court?
(a) That the King has had just had a male heir.
(b) That the King is dying.
(c) That the King is getting married.
(d) That the castle was being attacked by Vikings.

8. What does Athelwald do after his report to the King?
(a) He returns to Court and becomes the King's closest adviser.
(b) He asks the King's permission to marry the princess.
(c) He is killed in battle with the Vikings.
(d) He disappears from Court and marries Ordgar's daughter himself.

9. What does the King tell Merewyn?
(a) That she is his long lost daughter and should be crowned as such the following day.
(b) That she is welcome and will be treated in a manner that befits the last of the line of King Arthur.
(c) That she must leave the Court immediately, never to return.
(d) That she is forbidden to travel alone with a man and should be punished.

10. Who celebrates Edward's requiem mass?
(a) There is no mass. Edward is buried quickly.
(b) Archbishop Dunstan alone.
(c) Bishop Ethelwold alone.
(d) Dunstan and Bishop Ethelwold.

11. Who is the Queen of England?
(a) Queen Eneda.
(b) Queen Dunstana.
(c) Queen Edgive.
(d) Queen Alfrida.

12. How does Court refer to Alfrida after King Edgar dies?
(a) The former Queen.
(b) The Witch.
(c) They don't refer to her as anything because they do not acknowledge her.
(d) Old Lady.

13. What news does Gunnar bear?
(a) That he is to be married.
(b) That Alfrida is dying.
(c) That 7 shiploads of Vikings are on their way for plunder.
(d) That he is leaving for Norway.

14. The novel follows the history of England's raids by whom?
(a) The Normans.
(b) The Saxons.
(c) The Celts.
(d) The Vikings.

15. What kind of story is "Avalon?"
(a) A historic story.
(b) An epic story.
(c) An autobiographical story.
(d) A biographical story.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rumon see Alfrida give a cup to?

2. What is Breaca's dying wish?

3. What did Dunstan attempt to do?

4. How does Merewyn react to Rumon's betrothal?

5. How does Alfrida react to the insistence that Ethelred go to the coronation?

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