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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What announcement does Alfrida want to make at dinner that evening after Yuletide?
(a) Her love for Edward.
(b) That she is leaving for the convent the following day.
(c) Her pregnancy.
(d) Her engagement to Rumon.

2. What did Dunstan attempt to do?
(a) Care for plague victims.
(b) Lead the Viking raids.
(c) Bring the masses to a Christian life.
(d) Marry Merewyn.

3. What does Bishop Ehtelwold donate?
(a) Three hairs of a lock of the Blessed Virgin's.
(b) A piece of the true cross.
(c) Land that belongs to him.
(d) Gold that he has collected.

4. Why does Rumon leave Alfrida's castle at noon and return to his own lodgings?
(a) To pack his things for his trip to Ireland.
(b) To nap before the big party.
(c) To reflect upon his good fortune.
(d) To don his best clothes in anticipation of his betrothal announcement to the King.

5. What does Merewyn hope her prayers will accomplish?
(a) They will reveal her true love.
(b) They will help her ailing mother
(c) They will cure her of her ailments.
(d) They will help her find her way back home.

6. What does the Prior tell Rumon about Merewyn?
(a) That she is descended from royal blood as she claims to be.
(b) That she is a witch.
(c) That she is of Viking descent.
(d) That she is his illigitimate daughter.

7. Why does Alfrida not want Ethelred to attend Edward's coronation?
(a) Because Ethelred is angry at his brother.
(b) Because she has been snubbed.
(c) Because she believes it would be an insult to Edward.
(d) Because she believes Ethelred should be King.

8. Whom does the King summon shortly after Dunstan's and Rumon's discussion?
(a) Edgive.
(b) Dunstan and Rumon.
(c) Dunstan.
(d) Rumon.

9. What does Rumon try to get from the monks?
(a) All their gold.
(b) A blessing.
(c) Some sort of aid for the house of Uther.
(d) The deed to the land that they stole from him.

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

11. Why does Queen Alfrida lose her status at Court?
(a) Because she treated Edward badly.
(b) Because she is not a blood relation to Edward.
(c) Because she has already remarried.
(d) Because she did not support his coronation.

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

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

14. What is Breaca's dying wish?
(a) That Merewyn be told the truth of her identity.
(b) That Merewyn be married to Rumon.
(c) That Merewyn be taken to her aunt, Uther's sister, in Shaftsbury.
(d) That Merwyn be named to the King's Court.

15. What other name is Romieux de Provence known by?
(a) King Edgar.
(b) Romulan.
(c) Rumon.
(d) Robert of Provence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Breaca's family during the Viking attack?

2. What is Dunstan suggesting to Rumon after his stay at Glastonbury Abbey?

3. Who does Edward wed?

4. Where does Rumon say he wants to take Alfrida?

5. Why does Sister Herluva run to find Merewyn?

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