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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Gunner?
(a) King Edward's brother-in-law.
(b) One of the members of the Council.
(c) Queen Alfrida's new husband.
(d) King Edward's body Thane.

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

3. What does Alfrida do when she realizes Rumon hasn't drunk the poison?
(a) She get Cild to help her poison him a second time.
(b) She knocks him out with a huge candlestick.
(c) She abandons her plan.
(d) She reacts in a rage and hits Rumon.

4. What did the monks do when the Vikings attacked?
(a) They fought alongside Breaca and her family.
(b) They hid Breaca and her family.
(c) They supplied weapons to the people to fight back.
(d) They hid.

5. In what year does the story begin?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1873.
(c) 973.
(d) 100

6. How old was King Edgar?
(a) 23.
(b) 59.
(c) 40.
(d) 31.

7. Why is Rumon lost?
(a) Because he was shipwrecked.
(b) Because his guides abandoned him.
(c) Because he has a bad sense of direction.
(d) Because his map is wrong.

8. Who does Rumon see Alfrida give a cup to?
(a) Dunstan.
(b) Ethelred.
(c) Merewyn.
(d) Edward.

9. Who manipulates the council into wanting to crown King Edgar's choice?
(a) Archbishop Dunstan.
(b) Prince Edward.
(c) Queen Alfrida.
(d) Rumon.

10. What does Breaca make Rumon promise?
(a) That he will get aid from the monastery for them.
(b) That he will marry her daughter.
(c) That he will not tell her daughter that she is a Viking.
(d) That he will not leave them.

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

12. Why did the King dispatch Earl Athelwald of East Anglia to do?
(a) Murder Rumon.
(b) Fight the Vikings.
(c) Bring an important message to Queen Edgive.
(d) Visit the daughter of Earl Ordgar on his behalf and report back her looks and behavior.

13. How does Merewyn react to Rumon's betrothal?
(a) By sobbing.
(b) By telling him she's very happy for him.
(c) By telling him he is either mad or bewitched - or both.
(d) By telling him that she is in love with him.

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

15. Where does Rumon take the Queen after the King's death?
(a) To the royal garden.
(b) To his room.
(c) Back to her bower.
(d) To the chapel to pray.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the King tell Merewyn?

2. What is Breaca's dying wish?

3. How does the Queen react to the King's decision as to whom he has chosen to succeed him?

4. What does the Prior tell Rumon about Merewyn?

5. How does Edward die?

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