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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rumon's vision convince him of?
(a) That he will one day be King.
(b) That he should enter the monastery.
(c) That he is making a mistake.
(d) That he is on the path of his quest.

3. What does Rumon feel responsible for?
(a) Dunstan's death.
(b) The death of King Edward.
(c) The pain Merwyn has suffered since she left Alfrida.
(d) The child Merewyn bore him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kneels throughout Edward's requiem mass in black homespun clothes?

2. In what year does the story begin?

3. Why is Rumon lost?

4. What does the King tell Merewyn?

5. Why do the Viking ships not go ashore and attack the Abbey?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Rumon leave his homeland?

2. How does Edward describe his love, Elgifu?

3. Describe Rumon's appearance when he first meets Merewyn.

4. How does Elfled describe the dream she had to Merewyn while in Ramsey Abbey's garden on the feast of the Assumption?

5. How does Dunstan describe the scene that he came upon that led him to take Rumon to Glastonbury Abbey two weeks after the coronation?

6. Why did Alfrida consent to marry Rumon when he asked her again the day after Christmas?

7. Describe Brother Finian.

8. What did the monastery behind the small church that is dedicated to St. Petroc look like when Rumon saw it for the first time?

9. How has Merewyn changed since she first came to work for Alfrida in the Queen's Bower?

10. How did Rumon decorated his rooms in the Glastonbury Abbey guesthouse during the 2 years he lived there?

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