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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Sigurd, Merewyn, and Orm disappointed when round the cape?
(a) They had lost so many on the voyage.
(b) They miss their home in Iceland.
(c) They see grassland, but no trees are in sight.
(d) They see nothing but ice.

2. What does Ketil think of Erik's news?
(a) He is so enthusiastic as he describes this place that Ketil is already dreaming of a new home called Ketilsfjord, with miles of free land.
(b) Ketil doesn't believe what Erik tells him.
(c) Ketil believes it is dangerous.
(d) Ketil is bored with it.

3. What does Merewyn want for Orm in England?
(a) An education.
(b) A dog.
(c) A position of Thane.
(d) A wife.

4. Who is Sigurd?
(a) Merewyn's husband.
(b) Merewyn's captor.
(c) Merewyn's son.
(d) Merewyn's guard.

5. What does Merewyn want Sigurd to do while at the Althing?
(a) Stay sober.
(b) Release her from her promise.
(c) Become a member of the group.
(d) Get baptized.

6. What does the Abbess ask Merewyn to do when the Abbess dies?
(a) To become Abbess.
(b) To take her heart back to Padstow.
(c) To leave the Abbey.
(d) To pray for her.

7. When do Finian and Rumon first sense that something is wrong on their journey to find Merewyn?
(a) When they reach the church.
(b) When they come across a burned shop.
(c) When they reach the Camel River.
(d) When they reach Tre-Uther.

8. How does Orm accept the proper protocol when he meets the Abbot of Glastonbury?
(a) Orm does what he is told without question.
(b) Orm complains.
(c) Orm refuses.
(d) Orm sulks at the idea.

9. Who is Orm?
(a) Merewyn's guard.
(b) Merewyn's captor.
(c) Merewyn's son.
(d) Merewyn's husband.

10. How does King Ethelred decide to solve the problem of the Viking attacks?
(a) He offers his youngest daughter to Canute in marriage.
(b) He has his Thanes set fire to the Viking ships.
(c) He decides to pay Sweyn to stop attacking England.
(d) He has his Thanes slaughter the Vikings.

11. Why does the chief Viking order Merewyn to be taken to his ship?
(a) He will kill Merewyn at sea.
(b) Because Poldu tells the chief Viking that Merewyn is his daughter.
(c) He wants to marry Merewyn in his homeland.
(d) He needs another house servant in his homeland.

12. How many ships set sail from the western Fjords in the Spring?
(a) 100.
(b) 25.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

13. What does Orm try out as with King Sweyn's men?
(a) A huntsmen for Wulfric.
(b) A steersman on one of the long Viking ships.
(c) A Thane for King Ethelred.
(d) A captain of a small Viking ships.

14. What did Rumon decide to do once he heard the news that Merewyn was taken by the Vikings?
(a) Follow the Viking ship and bring Merewyn home.
(b) Go back to the Abbey, broken-hearted.
(c) Consult with the Archbishop to figure out what to do.
(d) Kill Poldu for not stopping the Vikings from taking Merewyn.

15. What does the Abbot suggest to Merewyn regarding her question?
(a) She doesn't deserve to know where Rumon is.
(b) She talk to Brother Finian who lives in one of the cells halfway up the Tor.
(c) She leave the Abbey at once.
(d) She go elsewhere for the information.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does King Ethelred do while the Vikings attack England?

2. How do the people at the feast react to the commands that Leif presents to them?

3. Who's commands does Leif present to the people when he arrives at the feast?

4. What does Orm ask Merewyn about after she and her party walk over the Mendip Mountains?

5. What does the Abbess speak of to the nuns during the interviews?

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