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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. When Merewyn sees Gunnar Thoredsson at the Abbey, how does he look?
(a) He looks sick and angry.
(b) He has a beard that ages him slightly and the devotion that was once in his eyes is gone.
(c) He looks tired and sad.
(d) He looks as if demons have possessed him.

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

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

4. What happened to Breaca's family during the Viking attack?
(a) They were saved by the monks.
(b) Most were slaughtered.
(c) Their crops were ruined.
(d) They were kidnapped by the Vikings.

5. How long ago did the King dispatch Earl Athelwald of East Anglia?
(a) 6 months ago.
(b) 9 years earlier.
(c) 1 year ago.
(d) 1 week ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the King dispatch Earl Athelwald of East Anglia to do?

2. What do those whom the King has summoned find when they arrive at Court?

3. What happens to make the Council want to crown King Edgar's choice to succeed him?

4. What news does Gunnar bear?

5. Who manipulates the council into wanting to crown King Edgar's choice?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Alfrida act toward Edward in the beginning of Chapter 6?

4. On the feast of the Assumption, how does Merewyn describe the Abbey's gardens as she sat in them beside Elfled on the well curb?

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

6. Why was the thought of Merewyn painful for Rumon as he talked to Dunstan outside his guesthouse rooms at Glastonbury Abbey?

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

8. What happened between Alfrida and Alfhere when Alfhere burst into Alfrida's bower after he heard that Ethelred would not attend Edward's Coronation?

9. What kind of person is Earl Alfhere, Lord of all Mercia, when he is introduced in Chapter 3? What does he look like?

10. Detail Rumon's vision at Tre-Uther.

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